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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…
8 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…
8 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…
8 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…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
8 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…
8 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 …
8 months, 2 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…
8 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…
8 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…
8 months, 3 weeks ago