Lincoln On The Verge

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The Story of America: The Rise of the Progressives [Ep. 40]

On this episode of Our American Stories, the 1896 election made one thing clear: William Jennings Bryan and the Populists had tapped into a growing sense that many Americans were being left behind by a rapidly changing nation. Though Bryan lost, the reformers behind his movement ...  Show more

The Best Time I Spent with My Dad Was Guarding Him in Prison

On this episode of Our American Stories, at seven years old, Randy Liberty visited his absent father behind bars at the Maine State Prison, whose imposing walls later helped inspire Stephen King's novel The Shawshank Redemption. Decades later, he returned to that same prison, not ...  Show more

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