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Story of Writing July 16, 2023
Season 1 Episode 53
The Atomic Age begins, "The Catcher in the Rye" is published, Apollo 11, and Ida B. Wells - with a reading of "Theme in Yellow," by Carl Sandburg.
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 15, 2023
Season 1 Episode 52
Finding the Rosetta Stone, ending the Spanish Inquisition, "presenile dementia" gets a name, Clement Clark Moore, and Iris Murdoch - with a reading o…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 14, 2023
Season 1 Episode 51
Bastille Day and Fete de la Federation, President Adams signs the Sedition Act into law, the city of Chicago experienced its second catastrophic fire…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 13, 2023 - 50th Episode!
Season 1 Episode 50
War correspondent George Weller, children's author and illustrator Marcia Brown, writer and film director Cameron Crowe - with a reading of "Miracles…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 12, 2023
Season 1 Episode 49
Camille Desmoulins and the storming of the Bastille, the Battles of Kursk and Prokhorovka, the Newark Riots, Henry David Thoreau, and Pablo Neruda - …
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 11, 2023
Season 1 Episode 48
The Jay Treaty, The Burr-Hamilton Duel, "To Kill a Mockingbird" was published on this day, "regulations are written in blood," the Srebenica Massacre…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 10, 2023
Season 1 Episode 47
The Nine-Day Queen Lady Jane Grey, Louis XVI demonstrates why it's not so good to be the King, Alexander Mackenzie becomes the first non-indigenous p…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 9, 2023
Season 1 Episode 46
The first law in the British Empire to free slaves, paying off the U.S. debt in 1795, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, the Ru…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 8, 2023
Season 1 Episode 45
The Hamburg Massacre, The first issue of The Wall Street Journal, The Dow Jones Industrial Average posts its lowest close in the 20th Century, Self-D…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 7, 2023
Season 1 Episode 44
The Anti-Abolitionist Riots in New York City, the first nationwide draft in the U.S., Florenz Ziegfeld produces his first "Follies," entire loaves of…
2 years, 10 months ago