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Story of Writing August 14, 2025
Season 25 Episode 814
The U.S. Social Security program is established and the birthday club includes Ernest Thompson Seton, Ernest Thayer, David Crosby, Steve Martin, Dani…
9 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing August 13, 2025
Season 25 Episode 813
French King Louis XVI is arrested for treason, it is "Barbed Wire Sunday," and it is the birthday of suffragist, abolitionist, and public speaker Luc…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing August 12, 2025
Season 25 Episode 812
Isaac Singer gets a patent for his sewing machine, Sue Hendrickson finds the best T. rex skeleton ever discovered, and the birthday club includes Mar…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing August 11, 2025
Season 25 Episode 811
Actress Hedy Lamarr gets a patent for tech used today, and the birthday club includes Angus Wilson and Alex Haley - with a reading from Haley's "Root…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing August 10, 2025
Season 25 Episode 810
The birthday club includes Era Bell Thompson, Clarence Fender, Dolores Alexander, Suzanne Collins, and Rachel Simmons. This episode includes a readin…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing August 9, 2025
Season 25 Episode 809
Henry David Thoreau publishes his book "Walden," Smokey Bear is introduced to the world, and the U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. This e…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing August 8, 2025
Season 25 Episode 808
General Robert E. Lee tries to resign from the Confederate army, the Allied Powers agree to parameters of the Nuremberg Trials, and, on her birthday,…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing August 7, 2025
Season 25 Episode 807
U.S. Pres. George Washington quashes the Whiskey Rebellion, Thor Heyerdahl's hand-made raft arrives in the South Pacific Islands, and Frances Kelsey …
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing August 6, 2025
Season 25 Episode 806
The U.S. drops the first atomic bomb used in a military attack, U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law, and "www" appears …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing August 5, 2025
Freedom of the press becomes a big deal in the American colonies, and the Union levies its first income tax, and the birthday club includes Guy de Ma…
9 months, 3 weeks ago