The Unlikely WWII B-24 Combat Pilot-Hero, Geo...

On this episode of Our American Stories, before Paychex, small businesses had limited options for handling payroll. Many owners managed it themselves, while others paid for services designed for much larger companies. Tom Golisano saw the gap and set out to offer a simpler way to ...  Show more

On this episode of Our American Stories, Dana Mitch grew up knowing pieces of her family’s Holocaust story, but they never quite felt like her own. That changed when she visited Buchenwald, one of the largest concentration camps on German soil.Walking through its grounds brought ...  Show more

April 19, 1951. General Douglas MacArthur's plane touches down in DC just after midnight. He’s coming home from fighting the Korean War. Over twelve thousand people are there to greet this person who the American people consider to be a national war hero. It’s quite the welcome f ...  Show more

World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia—and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in multiple the ...  Show more

"[He] washed his hands with the brains." This is the story of a 22-year-old George Washington as commander of a 400-man army fighting the French. We'll also hear about his childhood, the deaths, backcountry experience, and finagling, that bring George--who's untrained, inexperien ...  Show more

En avril 1917, les Etats-Unis s'engagent dans la Première Guerre mondiale. Dans le dernier épisode de notre série spéciale "Au cœur de l'Histoire" consacrée au passé américain, Jean des Cars vous raconte pourquoi et comment, après deux ans de débats et d’hésitations, les USA, qui ...  Show more