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Story of Writing June 30, 2026
Season 26 Episode 630
The Wilberforce-Huxley evolution debate at Oxford becomes an exchange of thinly veiled insults, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Yosemite Val…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Story of Writing June 29, 2026
Season 26 Episode 629
Fire rips through Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London and the birthday club includes Celia Thaxter, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and Stokely Carmichae…
3 weeks ago
Story of Writing June 28, 2026
Season 26 Episode 628
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, European powers sign the Treaty of Versailles, and it's Mel Brooks' birthday - with a reading from his memo…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Story of Writing June 27, 2026
Season 26 Episode 627
The birthday club includes Emma Goldman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Helen Keller, and Grace Lee Boggs - with a reading from Boggs' "The Next American Revo…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Story of Writing June 26, 2026
Season 26 Episode 626
American soldiers arrive in France to join the Allies fighting WWI, the Allies that won Victory in Europe signed the charter creating the United Nati…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Story of Writing June 25, 2026
Season 26 Episode 625
Custer makes his last stand and the birthday club includes David Douglas and George Orwell - with a reading from Orwell's "1984."
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Story of Writing June 24, 2026
Season 26 Episode 624
The birthday club includes Ambrose Bierce and Mary Wesley - with a reading from Wesley's "The Camomile Lawn."
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Story of Writing June 23, 2026
Season 26 Episode 623
The U.S. approves its first birth-control pill, Title IX is amended, Nixon incriminates himself, and it's the 10th anniversary of Brexit - with a rea…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Story of Writing June 22, 2026
Season 26 Episode 622
Establishing the U.S. Department of Justice and the Cuyahoga River catches on fire, again. This episode includes a reading from a speech in 1866 by O…
4 weeks ago
Story of Writing June 21, 2026
Season 26 Episode 621
Marie-Joseph Angelique is sentenced to death for burning Old Montreal, three voting-rights organizers are murdered in Mississippi, and it is Jean-Pau…
4 weeks, 1 day ago