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The American Story
Hosted by Christopher Flannery · EN
Every generation of Americans has been faced with the same question: how should we live? Our endlessly interesting answers have created The American Story. The weekly episodes published here stretch from battlefields and patriot graves to back roads, school yards, bar stools, city halls, blues joints, summer afternoons, old neighborhoods, ball parks, and deserted beaches—everywhere you find Americans being and becoming American. They are true stories about what it is that makes America beautiful, what it is that makes America good and therefore worthy of love. Each episode aims in some small way to awaken the better angels of our nature, to welcome us into and encourage us to enrich the great American story.
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Catching Excellence
Feb 1, 2022Tap to summarizeThe son of an Italian immigrant, Vincent Thomas Lombardi was born in Brooklyn on June 11, 1913. He played guard in the famed Seven Blocks of Granite offensive line of Fordham University in the 1930s before going on to become one of the greatest coaches of all time in any sport. His name is synonymous with winning. His steadfast spirit inspired the nation.
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Sep 22, 2020Tap to summarizeThe son of an Italian immigrant, Vincent Thomas Lombardi was born in Brooklyn on June 11, 1913. He played guard in the famed Seven Blocks of Granite offensive line of Fordham University in the 1930s before going on to become one of the greatest coaches of all time in any sport. His name is synonymous with winning. His steadfast spirit inspired the nation.
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Gettysburg
Aug 4, 2020Tap to summarizeWhat makes Gettysburg America's most hallowed ground? A delegation of Russian historians at the height of the Cold War seemed to know, when American historians had forgotten.
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Go West!
Dec 10, 2019Tap to summarizeThe Oregon Trail was the superhighway of the early American West
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