Sometimes it's nice just to hear a story. Like the "golden age of radio," Awesome Stories features dramatizations of classics, narrated chapters of our own stories, radio interviews and radio plays. This collection benefits ESL, adult literacy and those who just want to close their eyes and listen to a good story!
One theory has it that meteor sparks might have ignited the blaze the night of Chicago's Great Fire in October, 1871.
The stock market crash, Hoover and failing banks are all causes of the Great Depression, but there are others still unknown.
Tony Minke, on his way to get his watch repaired, finds Bobby's body.
Charles Howard, Seabiscuit's owner, is a car salesman who takes horses for trade on his cars.
Even though the American Bill of Rights protects freedom of speech, Americans practice censorship.
During Chicago's Great Fire of 1871, people are not able to escape death even when seeking safety in Lake Michigan.
Although Chicago has modern equipment, the city has far-too-few firefighters in 1871.
Chicago reporter Maurine Watkins, who covers the courts, turns two real murders into a play for a college class.
Maureen Watkinss play Chicago appears on Broadway in 1926 and later is the basis for the Bob Fosse musical.
Abandoned by his father and losing his mother and foster mother to tuberculosis, Poe spends his childhood alone and sad.
Young children work with little hope of getting a formal education.
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI have four children but only one - a daughter - reaches adulthood.
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