EP186: An Ordinary Cloth With An Extraordinary Story, Route 66: The Most Famous Highway In The World, The German Immigrant Who Gave Us Banquet Beer and  “The NOT So Wild, Wild West”

EP186: An Ordinary Cloth With An Extraordinar...

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Inside Atlanta’s Breman Museum: Jewish Life in the American South

On this episode of Our American Stories, The Breman Museum was created to preserve Jewish heritage in the American South, with a focus on Jewish communities in Georgia, Alabama, and beyond. What began as a small archive grew into a museum dedicated to telling the story of Jews in ...  عرض المزيد

From Homelessness to Handcrafted Furniture: J.J. Jones’ Story

On this episode of Our American Stories, before J.J. Jones became known in Oxford for building custom furniture, he was a father trying to survive without a home. He spent months living in a vehicle with his young daughter, taking whatever work he could find and doing his best to ...  عرض المزيد

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Betty and Barney Hill: The UFO Case that Changed Everything, with Toby Ball
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

In September of 1961, on an empty country road in rural New Hampshire, Barney and Betty Hill experienced the most profound, bizarre night of their lives in what would become the first widely-publicized account of an alien abduction in US history -- the case that would go on to ...

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Outlaws, Cattle Rustling and Bootlegging: The Life of Josie Bassett
Dan Snow's History Hit

Josie Bassett Morris' life epitomised the Wild West. She grew up on a homestead in the late 18th century, in Northern Utah, USA. Their home was situated on the Outlaw Trail and gun-slingers like Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid would stay as they passed through. Her mother ...

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Introducing: The Passage
The Passage

This road is not on any map. In the shadows of the afterlife, where time stands still, the Ferryman of souls guides America's most influential spirits to their eternal rest. Here, the price of passage isn't coin or gold, but something far more precious—their stories. These are ta ...  عرض المزيد

CLASSIC: The Wild West Was Actually Pretty Chill
Ridiculous History

If you're like most people, the phrase "Wild West" conjures images of brutal gunfights in dusty, tumbleweed-ridden streets, visions of criminals slinking into the shadows of dimly-lit saloons and the vast stretch of lawless, unforgiving frontier. But how much of that image is act ...  عرض المزيد