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The Story of Writing August 25, 2023
Season 1 Episode 93
The Great Moon Hoax, discovering the bacteria that caused the bubonic plague, the U.S. National Park Service is created, instant ramen noodles are ma…
2 years, 9 months ago
Story of Writing August 24, 2023
Season 1 Episode 92
The last writing in Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Treaty of Cordoba, the Panic of 1857, Yippies disrupt trading on the NYSE by throwing dollar bills on…
2 years, 9 months ago
Story of Writing August 23, 2023
Season 1 Episode 91
England’s King George III proclaims the American colonists are rebelling, Japan declares war on Germany, the Salad Bowl Strike, and the World Wide We…
2 years, 9 months ago
Story of Writing August 22, 2023
Season 1 Episode 90
The Cadillac Motor Company, the Siege of Leningrad, and happy birthday to Claude Debussy, Dorothy Parker, Ray Bradbury, and Annie Proulx - with a rea…
2 years, 9 months ago
Story of Writing August 21, 2023
Season 1 Episode 89
James Cook claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion begins in Virginia, the first of seven debates is held between …
2 years, 9 months ago
Story of Writing August 20, 2023
Season 1 Episode 88
Charles Darwin rushes to get his theory of evolution published, U.S. President Andrew Johnson formally declares the Civil War is over, Tchaikovsky's …
2 years, 9 months ago
Story of Writing August 19, 2023
Season 1 Episode 87
Infamous witch trials in England and the U.S., the Daguerrotype photo process is proclaimed free to anyone, the California Gold Rush makes news in Ne…
2 years, 9 months ago
Story of Writing August 18, 2023
Season 1 Episode 86
Spain's Queen Isabella I gets a five-volume work on Spanish grammar, women in the U.S. earn the right to vote, Nabokov's "Lolita" is published, Steve…
2 years, 9 months ago
Story of Writing August 17, 2023
Season 1 Episode 85
The first landing of British settlers on Roanoke Island, the first commercial steamboat makes its way north on the Hudson, George Orwell's "Animal Fa…
2 years, 9 months ago
Story of Writing August 16, 2023
Season 1 Episode 84
A big day for aboriginal peoples' land rights, and quite the birthday club: T. E. Lawrence, Hal Foster, Georgette Heyer, Wallace Thurman, William Kee…
2 years, 9 months ago