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Story of Writing February 19, 2026
Season 26 Episode 219
Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the U.S. Army to forcibly relocate Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast to internment camps, Betty Friedan …
5 months ago
Story of Writing February 18, 2026
Season 26 Episode 218
It is the birthday of novelist Toni Morrison and the anniversary of the publishing of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain. This episo…
5 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing February 17, 2026
Season 26 Episode 217
The birthday club includes activist Huey P. Newton, gender-fluid adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt, and Rabbi Chaim Potok - with a reading from Newton's …
5 months, 1 week ago
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…
5 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…
5 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…
5 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…
5 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…
5 months, 1 week 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…
5 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…
5 months, 2 weeks ago