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Story of Writing July 26, 2023
Season 1 Episode 63
The American colonies create a post office, Esperanto becomes a language, the Red Army captures the Ukrainian city of Lviv, the Potsdam Declaration, …
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 25, 2023
Season 1 Episode 62
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart finishes his 40th Symphony, writer Jack London sets sail for the Yukon, JFK pledges his solidarity with West Berlin, and it's…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 24, 2023
Season 1 Episode 61
O. Henry gets out of prison, the Kellogg-Briand Pact goes into effect, the highest temperatures of the heat wave that caused the American Dust Bowl, …
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 23, 2023
Season 1 Episode 60
The Ford Motor Company sells its first car, the Chinese Communist Party is established on a party barge, the 'ruler' of Vichy France is put on trial …
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 22, 2023
Season 1 Episode 59
Katherine Lee Bates starts writing "America the Beautiful" and it's the birthday of Emma Lazarus - with a reading of "America the Beautiful."
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 21, 2023
Season 1 Episode 58
The first showdown in America's Wild West, John Scopes was found guilty of teaching the science of evolution in biology class, the coldest temperatur…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 20, 2023
Season 1 Episode 57
A day of bravery: Finland breaks from Russia and adopts universal suffrage, Apollo 11 lands on the moon and people walk on it, Canada becomes only th…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 19, 2023
Season 1 Episode 56
The first women’s rights convention in the U.S. began in Seneca Falls, N.Y., Evelyn Waugh publishes "The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold," the first three-…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 18, 2023
Season 1 Episode 55
The Hough Riots that tore through Cleveland, Nadia Comăneci scores a perfect 10 at the 1976 Olympics, William Makepeace Thackeray, Nelson Mandela, an…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 17, 2023
Season 1 Episode 54
Spain gives Florida to the U.S. - for a price, Willis Carrier draws up plans for the air conditioner, the Allies confer in Potsdam, Germany, Disneyla…
2 years, 10 months ago