http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/04/14Apr15-Fords-Theater.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s been 150 years since John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln.  Today, we go to the site of the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2015/04/13Apr15-Santa-Annas-Leg.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)It’s been over 150 years since Illinois soldiers faced Santa Ana in the Mexican War. However traces of that battle…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/10Apr15-Ernest-Muncreif.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many schools take field trips this time of the year. They are usually a fun event for students to get…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/09Apr15-Appamatox-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)After four years of Civil War the conflict had claimed over 630,000 lives.  It was time to begin the long…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/08Apr15-Appamatox-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most Americans know it as the place where the Civil War ended.  Although that is not technically true…it is still…

Ask an American who is the most famous architect in their country’s history and this man’s name is probably at the top of the list….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/24Feb15-Salton-Sea-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a lake with an elevation of over 200 feet below sea level.  It’s also a body of water with…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/23Feb15-Salton-Sea-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s the largest lake in California.  So large, in fact, it’s called a sea.  You couldn’t find this lake on…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/20Feb15-Presidents-Week-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)He was the only man to serve as president and chief justice, but most people that visit his home here…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/19Feb15-Presidents-Week-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)To date, no U.S. president has been born in North Dakota…but this commander-in-chief experienced a rebirth there that he said…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/18Feb15-Presidents-Week-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This president set the record for having the most children with a total of 15.  His second wife was actually…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/17Feb15-Presidents-Week-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people want to elect a president who knows a little, if not a lot about how to govern a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/16Feb15-Presidents-Week-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is the man people may have forgot was even President, the man who followed Andrew Jackson…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/13Feb15-New-Mellary-Abbey.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When people began attending funerals here, many had the exact same reaction. They mentioned that when they passed, they wanted…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/12Feb15-4-H-Clover.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)The 4-H Program is now over a century old and many people recognize the familiar green clover that symbolizes those…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/05Jan15-Two-Harbors-Docks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are some of the largest boat docks you’ll ever see.  Not mere spots on a lake from which to…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/02Jan15-Best-of-2014-The-Rights-to-a-Cowboy-Song.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In the 1930s a cowboy song began to get quite a bit of air time on radio stations.  But suddenly…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/01Jan15-Best-of-2014-Burning-the-White-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was an act that seemed unthinkable.  Another nation’s army marched into the United States capital and burned its most…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/31Dec14-Best-of-2014-Navajo-Codetalker.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When World War II began, many men here in Navajo country volunteered for the armed forces.  Some of those men…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/30Dec14-Best-of-2014-Archduke-Ferdinand-Assassination.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s difficult for many of us to name many specific battles or events in World War I.  We may have…