Over the summer, StoryCorps teamed up with NPR’s Morning Edition on an experiment: Connect 250, a recording platform that matched up strangers from around the country for virtual conversations. In ...

Afaf Saleh talks to her friend and mentor, Suzanne Burke Lehman, about a moment in life when she almost gave up, and how ...

On October 7, 2001, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan following the September 11 attacks. Captain Ahmad Khalid Noori served as an ...

Some things you just have to learn on the job. This week, stories from funeral directors, garbage collectors, firefighters, and Golden Gate Bridge ironworkers about how their occupations challenged ...

Paul Henry was an enthusiastic, funny, and affectionate father who loved quality time with his daughter Alexia – whether singing in the car or their weekend movie marathons. But on June 12, 2016, when ...

72-year-old Naomi “Nonie” Lynn spent most of her life fighting for the rights of LGBTQ people like herself. But about 10 years ago, she was diagnosed with agoraphobia – the fear of public places – and ...

In 2018, a gunman attacked a Pittsburgh synagogue which included the Tree of Life, New Light and Dor Hadash congregations. 11 people were killed and at least 6 others were wounded. Dan Leger, a nurse ...

Don Crisman and Gregory Eaton have always been big football fans. In 1967, they independently went to Los Angeles for the first ever Super Bowl, which was then called the AFL-NFL World Championship ...

Sisters Shanita Baraka Akintonde and Danielle Tavon Bishop grew up in Chicago in the 1980s. They came to StoryCorps to remember their mother, Mary Catherine Bishop, known to friends and family as Cat.

Laura Meza and Livy Lazaro have a lot in common. Both children of immigrants, they joined the Army soon after high school and served in the Iraq War. But Livy is a U.S. citizen, and Laura only had a ...

Justin Leonard and Matthew Kurvink’s conversation was recorded from inside the Four Mile Correctional Facility in Cañon City, Colorado. At the time of the recording, both were serving sentences for ...

20 years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. StoryCorps was there in the aftermath, recording interviews with survivors in the cities where they fled. The stories in this episode — many ...