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Story of Writing June 16, 2023
Season 1 Episode 23
Abraham Lincoln delivers his "House Divided" speech and it's Bloomsday! For the romantics, the lovers of literature, and anyone who has walked down N…
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 15, 2023
Season 1 Episode 22
King John of England assents to the Magna Carta, Benjamin Franklin proves lightning is, in fact, electricity, Arlington is designated a National Mili…
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 14, 2023
Season 1 Episode 21
Flag Day in the U.S., Charles Babbage proposes his difference engine, the Bear Flag Revolt, and the birthday of Harriett Beecher Stowe - with a readi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 13, 2023
Season 1 Episode 20
Miranda rights, Thurgood Marshall is nominated to the Supreme Court, the Pentagon Papers, and William Butler Yeats - with a reading of his poem "The …
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 12, 2023
Season 1 Episode 19
The Virginia Declaration of Rights, written by George Mason, for her 13th birthday, Anne Frank was given a blank book she used as a diary, Nelson Man…
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 11, 2023
Episode 18
One of the most searing days for civil rights in the 20th Century: Thích Quảng Đức, George Wallace, Vivian Malone, James Hood, President John F. Kenn…
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 10, 2023
Season 1 Episode 17
Bridget Bishop and the Salem Witch Trials, AA, Howlin' Wolf, and Saul Bellow - with a reading from "Herzog."
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 9, 2023
Season 1 Episode 16
The treaty that ended the war between France and China, the International Council on Archives, Cole Porter, Robert McNamara, and Jackie Wilson - with…
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 8, 2023
Season 1 Episode 15
James Madison proposes 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution but the states have the red editing pen, Teddy Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into…
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 7, 2023
Season 1 Episode 14
The Treaty of Tordesillas, the Petition of Right, the resolution that led to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, breaching the Yellow River Dam in …
2 years, 11 months ago