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Story of Writing July 6, 2023
Season 1 Episode 43
Using a vaccine, Louis Pasteur cured a rabies patient for the first time, Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, John Lennon and Paul …
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 5, 2023
Season 1 Episode 42
Isaac Newton publishes "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" and Frederick Douglass gave his speech “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of Ju…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 4, 2023
Season 1 Episode 41
The writing that influenced the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and the remarkable achievement of the document itself - with a reading from the let…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 3, 2023
Season 1 Episode 40
George Washington's first battle ends in his surrender, but 21 years later - to the day - he assumes command of the Continental Army, the bloody Batt…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 2, 2023
Season 1 Episode 39
Johann Sebastian Bach's "Magnificat," dissolving political bands, the Amistad, "Finlandia," by Jean Sibelius, The U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964, Herm…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 1, 2023
Season 1 Episode 38
The Battle of Gettysburg begins, Canada becomes a nation, the Battle of the Somme begins, too, "Inundation Day," and George Sand's birthday - with a …
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing June 30, 2023
Season 1 Episode 37
The Evolution Debate of 1860 at Oxford, Abraham Lincoln signs the Yosemite Valley Grant Act, Albert Einstein, the National Organization of Women, and…
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing June 29, 2023
Season 1 Episode 36
The Globe Theater burns to the ground, Giacomo Leopardi, Celia Thaxter, and Antoine de Saint-Exupery - with a reading of Thaxter's "The Sandpiper."
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing June 28, 2023
Season 1 Episode 35
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the Treaty of Versailles - with a reading of one of my favorite poems: "The Traveller-Heart," by Vachel Lindsay.
2 years, 10 months ago
Story of Writing June 27, 2023
Season 1 Episode 34
Emma Goldman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Helen Keller, and Grace Lee Boggs - with a reading of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Eagle."
2 years, 10 months ago