Category: History
Accidental Eyewitness to History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/15Jul13-Tague-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)This week we resume our series on the coming 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. We visit with…
More Important than Kitty Hawk?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/10Jul13-Wright-Brothers-Dayton.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The Wright Brothers first took flight in 1903 and that plane is in the Smithsonian. But the brothers said there…
Up, Up, and Away…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/09Jul13-Stratosphere-Balloons.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Before men could go into outer space, they first had to make it into the stratosphere. Many people don’t know…
The Truth About Paul Revere’s Famous Ride
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/08Jul13-Paul-Revere.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the eighteenth of April, in…
Gettysburg Week: Supporting the Soldiers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/05Jul13-Gettysburg-Christian-Commission.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)When a soldier heads to battle, there are many organizations that volunteer their services to help he or she and…
Gettysburg Week: Guiding Us Through History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/04Jul13-Gettysburg-Guide.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)He’s shared his knowledge with joint chiefs of staff, ambassadors and other high ranking government officials. But when you lead…
Scenic Route: Supporting the Troops Before the USO
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/ScenicRoute-011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 14:09 — 13.0MB)Before the USO was sending Bob Hope overseas, a little-known organization went to the war front to support soldiers in…
Scenic Route: Gettysburg Remembered
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/ScenicRoute-010.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 16:25 — 15.0MB)As America celebrates the anniversary of its founding, it also celebrates the 150th anniversary of one of its most important…
Gettysburg Week: The Man Behind the “Charge”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/03Jul13-Gettysburg-Pickett.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)He is perhaps the most famous name to fight at the battle of Gettysburg. His leadership on the battlefield has…
Gettysburg Week: What a Way to Spend Retirement
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/02Jul13-Gettysburg-Burns.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)Imagine hitting the age to retire and then deciding to go volunteer for the army. That is what John Burns…
Gettysburg Week: The General (Most of) America Forgot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/01Jul13-Gettysburg-Meade.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)In the three days leading up to Indpendence Day, 1863, Americans waged the greatest of battles against one another at…
Some Abraham Lincoln Stories You Won’t Get from Hollywood
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/28Jun13-Vandalia-Lincoln.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)What was Abraham Lincoln doing with 81 bottles of champagne and 14 pounds of raisins? Thankfully he didn’t consume them…
A Deadly Trip
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/27Jun13-De-Soto-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.8MB)Imagine walking all the way from Arkansas to Mexico City. That’s what this expedition attempted to do. When they finally…
Transforming Florida Forever
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/26Jun13-De-Soto-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)It’s hard to imagine the changes that took place in the American southeast during the 16th Century. The Spanish came…
Where the Delta Meets the Ozarks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/24Jun13-Powhatan.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Powhatan, Ark., is a once-thriving city, now mostly a ghost town. But its buildings have been restored and the stories…
America’s Territory with a Remarkable History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/21Jun13-St.-Croix-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The Spanish were the first Europeans to arrive here. Then the French rules the island, followed by the Danes. Finally…
Caribbean Education for a Founding Father
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/20Jun13-Alexander-Hamilton-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Today a high school or college student might take an internship to learn the basics they need for a certain…
A Founding Father with Island Ties
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/19Jun13-Alexander-Hamilton-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Historians don’t agree whether this U.S. founding father was born in 1755 or 1757. He never arrived in what is…
Tractors of the War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/17June13-Armored-Tractors-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)We may not think of ag equipment manufacturers having much to do with the U.S. military. However, during World War…
Now THAT’S a Tractor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/14June13-Armored-Tractors-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)If you think those high-tech gizmos on modern tractors are cool, you should check out a John Deere model from…