EP72: Letting Your Daughter Grow Up, The Great Chicago Fire and Cars As Material Culture

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How a College Student Saved Ulysses S. Grant’s Tomb

On this episode of Our American Stories, General Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War and later served two terms as the 18th president of the United States. Today, he is buried at Grant’s Tomb in New York City, the largest presidential tomb in the count ...  Show more

Fifty Years Later, I Returned to the Place I Once Called Home

On this episode of Our American Stories, as a boy growing up in Kansas City, Roger Rench’s life changed suddenly when his father took a job as a golf pro in the small town of Sheridan, Iowa. The move meant trading city life for a tiny community and living inside the clubhouse of ...  Show more

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