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Story of Writing November 18, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1118
"Local times" end at train stations across the U.S., British suffragists suffer "Black Friday" in London, South Africa ends apartheid, and it is the …
6 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing November 17, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1117
Nixon says, "I am not a crook" and the birthday club includes Peter Cook and Rebecca Walker - with a reading from Walker's essay, "Becoming the Third…
6 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing November 16, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1116
Fyodor Dostoevsky is sentenced to death and the birthday club includes China Achebe and Andrea Barrett - with a reading from "Letters of a Woman Home…
6 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing November 15, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1115
Union General William T. Sherman begins his march from Atlanta to Savanah, Georgia. It's called the March to the Sea because of Sam Byers. This episo…
6 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing November 14, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1114
Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is published in the U.S., Nellie Bly attempts to travel around the world in less than 80 days, Ruby Bridges desegregate…
6 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing November 13, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1113
Walt Disney releases "Fantasia," SCOTUS rules that Alabama's segregated buses violate the Constitution, Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing November 12, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1112
Tim Berners-Lee proposes something called the World Wide Web. The birthday club includes John MacGahern, Sarah Harmer, and Richelle Mead - with a rea…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing November 11, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1111
The Mayflower Compact is signed, it is Armistice Day, and the birthday club includes Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kurt Vonnegut, and Mary Gaitskill - with a re…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing November 10, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1110
The post-revolution French imposed the Cult of Reason on the nation, the top-secret message stipulating the end of WWI is sent from Europe to the U.S…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing November 9, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1109
This is the anniversary of Kristallnacht, and decades later this day also saw the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The birthday club includes Maud Howe Ellio…
6 months, 2 weeks ago