Jul 20

Katie Ledecky: The Call Of The Water

She sent shockwaves through the world of competitive swimming, when she won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics, beating out the favorites by a wide margin. She was 15 years old. Katie Ledecky is now training for her fifth Olympics, and is indisputably the greatest female swimmer o ... Show More

53m 20s

Apr 2026

Cindy Sherman: Illusions of Identity

Cindy Sherman, one of the world's most renowned contemporary art photographers, started posing for her own photos in the 1970's, long before the advent of selfies. But she says her images are not self-portraits. Instead, she uses sets, costumes and makeup to create an elaborate a ... Show More

42m 14s

Nov 2025

Tara VanDerveer: A Vision for Victory

She is one of the greatest basketball coaches in history, and an inspiration to generations of young women. Tara VanDerveer was head coach of the Stanford Women's Basketball team for 38 seasons. She led her team to three NCAA Championships. She also led the national women's ba ... Show More

50m 26s

Oct 2025

Honor and Loyalty: The Story of Japanese American Soldiers in WWII

On this episode of Our American Stories, they were Americans by birth but treated as outsiders when the war began. After Pearl Harbor, many Japanese Americans were sent to camps under suspicion of aiding the enemy. Yet from those same camps came volunteers who joined the U.S. Arm ... Show More

7m 59s

Aug 2023

201 - Japanese Americans in WWII

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, over 125,000 Japanese Americans living in the continental United States were incarcerated in prison camps. The majority of these were born in America and US citizens. This was authorised by an Executive Order from President Roosevelt. T ... Show More

1h 9m

Dec 2024

The Purple Heart Warriors

During World War Two, a Japanese American battalion became one of the most decorated army units in US military history.The 442nd Regimental Combat Unit earned more than 4,000 Purple Hearts and seven Presidential Unit Citations for extraordinary heroism in battle.The unit was set ... Show More

10m 13s

May 2022

4. Shikata Ga Nai (It Cannot Be Helped) (ft. Mike Shinoda)

This chapter is the turning point for REP. In a miraculous turn of events, Noor meets a group of Japanese American elders who were forced to live in US internment camps during WWII. Their stories, some being shared for the first time, are a testament to our interconnectedness. T ... Show More

53m 23s

Aug 2020

The internment of Japanese Americans

Thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to prison camps after the USA entered World War Two following the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Whole families found themselves housed in barracks behind barbed wire fences. Former Star Trek actor, George Takei, was just a child when he was l ... Show More

8m 59s

Jan 2024

Hour 3: A Nation of Nations

Jesse examines America's Japanese internment camps during WWII to explain the security risk that comes with having various communities in your nation. The history of chemicals in American foods. Setting up your kids for failure. The NRA has been controlled opposition for a whi ... Show More

36m 1s

Apr 2024

Japan's Warrior Scapegoats

David Gornoski sits down with Andrew Hammer for a conversation on how nation-states exist through the mass sacrifice of war, how Japan committed Seppuku during the Second World War, why death proves a nation's existence, and more. Visit the website of Foundation for the Study of ... Show More

39m 25s

Aug 2023

'Of White Ashes' follows a Japanese-American love story after the WWII internment

Author Kent Matsumoto's parents both lived through traumatic experiences during WWII: his mother was forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans in the U.S., and his father survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In a new novel, Of White Ashes, Matsumoto and his wife ... Show More

6m 37s

Daniel Inouye and Norman Mineta: In Defe...