EP170: Taking The Time To Talk To Strangers, Snowflake Bentley, First Photograph of a Snowflake and The Government Wouldn't Let Paula Smith Sell Her House For Over A Decade

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The Rise of Adolf Hitler: Why a Nation Chose Tyranny

On this episode of Our American Stories, the Third Reich lasted just twelve years, but the destruction it unleashed reshaped the world forever. In this episode, we examine the rise of Adolf Hitler—not as a sudden coup, but as a political ascent made possible through elections, in ...  Show more

One of America’s Greatest Business Leaders Started as a Paperboy

On this episode of Our American Stories, long before leading ten publicly traded companies, Jerre Stead was waking up at 3 a.m. to deliver newspapers in rural Iowa. In this story, Stead explains how running a paper route at age nine—through snowstorms, strict deadlines, difficult ...  Show more

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