Category: History
A Network of Ancient Cities
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Dickson-Mounds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.8KB)Before interstate highways existed, something apparently linked America’s first large cities. But we don’t know exactly what. Andrew McCrea examines…
An Ancient City in Mid-America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/12/Dickson-Mounds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Dickson, Illinois, is a nice town on the Illinois River. But it’s far from the first city in that location….
Scenic Route – A Series of Miracles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/ScenicRoute-004.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 48:21 — 22.1MB)Serge Kreisberger was a little boy in Romania during the Holocaust, but he made it out alive through what he…
Scenic Route – A Modern-Day Viking Ship
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/ScenicRoute-002.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 5:48 — 3.9MB)How does a junior high guidance counselor come to be the builder and owner of a full-size Viking ship? And…
The Scenic Route – Eugene Boone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/ScenicRoute-0012.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 28:28 — 20.1MB)In 1963, Eugene Boone was a 24-year-old deputy in Dallas, Texas–the youngest deputy ever hired by the sheriff there. On…
The War of 1812
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/02/19Mar13-River-Raisin-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s long been said that the only thing most Americans can tell you about the War of 1812 is what…
The Hometown of George Armstrong Custer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/06Mar13-Custer-Monroe-Michigan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)We know him for the battle at the Little Bighorn. But to know just that one fact is to miss…
