On this episode of Our American Stories on June the Cleveland Indians hosted the Texas Rangers in what began as a regular MLB game and ended as one of the most infamous promotions in baseball history Known as Ten Cent Beer Night the evening promised cheap drinks to boost attendance What followed was a riot on the field a forfeit and a chapter of baseball history that still stuns fans today The History Guy recounts the unbelievable story of the night chaos replaced baseball in Cleveland Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate Support the show https www ouramericanstories [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories it started in a bathroom where a man trapped in addiction waited to make another bad decision Pastor Greg Laurie didn't know what he was walking into only that something told him to go Inside he found a man on the edge tired angry and ready to give up Instead of turning away Greg spoke about grace and in that small stained room something began to shift The encounter led to a renewed faith and a brand-new life rebuilt from the ruins of substance abuse Pastor Greg joins us to tell the story [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence James Madison became known as the Father of the Constitution But the man who gave the Constitution much of its final language including the famous words We the People of the United States is largely forgotten His name was Gouverneur Morris Dennis C Rasmussen author of The Constitution's Penman and a Jack Miller Center Fellow shares the extraordinary story of the Founding Father who spoke more often than anyone else at the Constitutional Convention helped shape the document's final form and delivered one of its fiercest [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories before Antonin Scalia became the first Italian American to serve on the U S Supreme Court he was Nino the only child of an Italian American family growing up in Queens His father had arrived from Sicily as a teenager speaking no English and worked his way through school to become a professor of Romance languages His mother the daughter of Italian immigrants became a schoolteacher Together they filled their son's childhood with books high expectations family and a deeply rooted Catholic faith James Rosen author of Scalia Rise to Greatness shares how [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories at years old Donna Martin had a plan She was going to leave Forest Mississippi spend the summer working as a lifeguard in Yosemite and use her days off to drive over to Hollywood and become a movie star It sounded simple enough Then she got to California and discovered that Yosemite wasn't exactly next door to Hollywood her summer job involved more than sitting beside a swimming pool and life away from home wasn't quite what she had imagined Donna shares the funny and deeply personal story of the summer that sent [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories on the night of March the USS Kitty Hawk was cutting through the Sea of Japan when a Soviet submarine suddenly surfaced directly in its path For days the nuclear-powered K- had been stalking the American carrier group Then somehow they lost track of the Kitty Hawk By the time she surfaced and spotted the -ton aircraft carrier bearing down on it there was no time to get out of the way With American and Soviet forces suddenly facing each other across a damaged submarine both sides now had another challenge making sure [... more]