Category: Best of
The Little Jail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/08May17-Little-Jail.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:57 — 2.0MB)The need for maximum security prisons is an unfortunate reality of life. On the other end of the spectrum is…
The Spruce Goose
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/05May17-Spruce-Goose-2017.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)This plane made but one flight – a trip that lasted about one mile just a few yards off of…
The Postville Courthouse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/04/21Apr17-Postville-Courthouse-2017.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Americans regard him as one of their most beloved presidents…a man that pulled a nation together as civil war tore…
Inside the Earth Lodge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/11Apr17-Ocmulgee-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It this country…the U.S. Capitol is the place where laws are made…but 1000 years ago…it was perhaps this earth lodge…
Unique Mounds and Lodges
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/03/10Apr17-Ocmulgee-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of what we know about this group of people comes from the mounds they built all across the U.S. …
The Underground Railroad
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/15Mar17-Underground-Railroad-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)You can go to many spots around the country and see homes, barns and businesses that served as stops on…
One of the Most Famous Railroads
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/14Mar17-Underground-Railroad-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is one of the most famous railroads in this country’s history…yet it ran without a published schedule. For some…
President’s Week 2017: Calvin Coolidge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/02/24Feb17-Presidents-Week-Calvin-Coolidge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It all happened in the middle of the night. The citizens of the United States went to bed on August…
President’s Week 2017: Herbert Hoover
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/02/23Feb17-Presidents-Week-Herbert-Hoover-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s Presidents Week on the and today’s feature focuses on a graduate of Stanford who used his engineering degree to…
President’s Week 2017: Woodrow Wilson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/22Feb17-Presidents-Week-Woodrow-Wilson.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He was the son of a Presbyterian minister who went on to teach school and lead the nation during a…
President’s Week 2017: Theodore Roosevelt
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/21Feb17-Presidents-Week-Theodore-Roosevelt.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief’s experiences there may be the reason he…
President’s Week 2017: William McKinley
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/20Feb17-Presidents-Week-William-McKinley.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some history students will remember the slogan “Remember the Maine”, a war cry that sent the U.S. into battle against…
The Jefferson Highway
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/02/17Feb17-Jefferson-Highway-2017.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)In the nineteen teens and early 20s motorists did not find their route by a highway number but rather a…
Amazing Feats of Frigidness
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/27Jan17-Morristown-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We may complain about winter weather at times…but there has perhaps never been a winter like that of 1779-80…a winter…
The Challenges of Morristown
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/26Jan17-Morristown-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Most American’s have heard of the winter Washington’s men endured at Valley Forge…but few it seems have heard the story…
Shawnee Mission
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/20Jan17-Shawnee-Mission-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As Europeans crossed the Atlantic, those who had been living on the eastern seaboard for centuries were often forced to…
A Trading Network on the Northern Plains
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/13Jan17-Fort-Union-2017.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It was the site of a vast trading network on the northern plains. It’s history spanned forty years and today,…
The Knife River Indian Village
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/06Jan17-Knife-River-Indian-Village.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Two centuries ago, these villages contained more people than the city of St. Louis…yet only a handful of Europeans and…
Best of 2016: Take A Little Trip with Colonel Jackson
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/30Dec16-Best-of-2016-Battle-of-New-Orleans.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What you know about this battle probably comes from a song you’ve heard. So today we’ll “Take a little trip…
Best of 2016: Judge Roy Bean
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2016/10/29Dec16-Best-of-2016-Judge-Roy-Bean.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We may not like the rules, but every place needs them. And with the rules comes a person to enforce…
