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Story of Writing February 16, 2026
Season 26 Episode 216
The first anti-discrimination law in the U.S. goes into effect - in Alaska. It is the birthday of hitmaker Otis Blackwell. And today's reading is fro…
3 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing February 15, 2026
Season 26 Episode 215
It is the birthday of women's suffragist Susan B. Anthony and the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' letter revealing how little he knew of the pla…
3 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing February 14, 2026
Season 26 Episode 214
The inventor of the typewriter and QWERTY keyboard was born on this day, as was reporter Carl Bernstein. And Voyager 1 took the picture titled "The P…
3 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing February 13, 2026
Season 26 Episode 213
Hundreds of the Knights Templar are arrested - inspiring superstition around Friday the 13th, ASCAP forms, the WWII firebombing of Dresden begins, Au…
3 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing February 12, 2026
Season 26 Episode 212
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on this day in the same year. This episode looks at their decisions, written and otherwise, with reading…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing February 11, 2026
Season 26 Episode 211
General Motors inadvertently makes the United Auto Workers a cohesive labor union, the Seabed Arms Control Treaty "opens" for signing, and the birthd…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing February 10, 2026
Season 26 Episode 210
February 10th is the anniversary of the births of Puerto Rican historian Delma Arrigoitia, Russian author Boris Pasternak, and journalist William All…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing February 9, 2026
Season 26 Episode 209
Today marks the birthdays of American revolutionary Thomas Paine, singer-songwriter Carole King, and author Alice Walker. Today's episode includes re…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing February 8, 2026
Season 26 Episode 208
On the birthdays of Jules Verne and Kate Chopin, a look at their work and how important they have become to the modern world - with a reading from Ch…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing February 7, 2026
Season 26 Episode 207
Today marks the birthdays of Sinclair Lewis and Karen Joy Fowler. And it is the day that the state of Mississippi approved the 13th Amendment - nearl…
3 months, 2 weeks ago