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Story of Writing November 8, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1108
Mary Lyon establishes Mount Holyoke, White and Black U.S. workers strike together, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt launches the Civil Works Department, a…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing November 7, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1107
The British offer to emancipate American slaves - if they fought to defeat American colonists in their war of Independence, abolitionist Elijah Lovej…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing November 6, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1106
The Charter of the Forest is sealed in London and the birthday club includes Derrick Bell, Michael Cunningham, and Colson Whitehead - with a reading …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing November 5, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1105
"The Gunpowder Treason" is discovered, Susan B. Anthony is arrested for voting, George Selden gets the U.S. patent for the automobile, declarations o…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing November 4, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1104
Sigmund Freud publishes his book "Interpretation of Dreams" and the birthday club includes Will Rogers and Charles Frazier - with a reading from Roge…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing November 3, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1103
The English Parliament makes Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, Olympe de Gouges is guillotined for her feminist writings, and it is the birthda…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing November 2, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1102
Penguin Books is exonerated of charges of obscenity for publishing D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover," U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson decides th…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing November 1, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1101
Shakespeare's "Othello" and "The Tempest" premiere, Edmund Burke publishes his pamphlet "Reflections on the Revolution in France," The U.S. Library o…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing October 31, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1031
Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the Church Door, the Netherlands Leiden University Library opens, and the birthday club includes Marie Louise An…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing October 30, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1030
Nat Turner is arrested for starting a slave rebellion, Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, Orson Wells narrates "The War of the Worlds" an…
6 months, 3 weeks ago