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Jul 2021
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EP37: Allegory-Beauty from Ashes, Tale o...

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On this episode of the Our American Stories podcast, Chad Schumacher, tells the story of when a family health scare turned their life upside-down and shaped his and his wife's career for the next decade; also, Jackson McQigg of the Atlanta History Center tells the story of the principle chase locomotive of the Great Railroad Chase...a story which goes much deeper than just that; and finally Hugh Eastwood and Bevis Schock, civil rights lawyers in St. Louis, tell about the time they filed suit in three separate cases and all three cases were heard by Missouri Supreme Court in one mammoth morning argument.

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