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Story of Writing June 15, 2025
Season 25 Episode 615
England's King John signs the Magna Carta and Arlington National Cemetery is established in the U.S. It is the birthday of Ramon Lopez Velarde - with…
11 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing June 14, 2025
Season 25 Episode 614
It is the birthday of the U.S. Armed Forces, and Charles Babbage presents his "difference engine," and the Bear Flag Revolt makes America bigger. It …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing June 13, 2025
Season 25 Episode 613
Thurgood Marshall is nominated to the U.S Supreme Court, the New York Times publishes the Pentagon Papers, and it is the birthday of William Butler Y…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing June 12, 2025
Season 25 Episode 612
Virginia adopts the influential Declaration of Rights written by George Mason, on her 13 th birthday, Anne Frank gets a blank book, and the U.S. Supr…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing June 11, 2025
Season 25 Episode 611
Civil rights come into focus on this day in 1963. A Buddhist monk sets himself on fire to protest religious oppression in Vietnam, Alabama Governor G…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing June 10, 2025
Season 25 Episode 610
So-called "spectral evidence" is allowed in Massachusetts Bay Colony and result in the executions of the Salem Witch Trials. On this day, Howlin' Wol…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing June 9, 2025
Season 25 Episode 609
France and China sign the Treaty of Tientsin and the birthday club includes Cole Porter, Robert McNamara, and Jackie Wilson - with a reading from Por…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing June 8, 2025
Season 25 Episode 608
The U.S. Bill of Rights takes shape, the Antiquities Act is passed, George Orwell's "1984" is published and it is the birthday of comedian Joan River…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Story of Writing June 7, 2025
Season 25 Episode 607
Spain and Portugal carve up the New World in the Treaty of Tordesillas, the Petition of Right is passed in England, and American colonists say they s…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing June 6, 2025
Season 25 Episode 606
The Battle of Midway and D-Day are both tied to June 6th and we celebrate the birthdays of Alexander Pushkin, Angelo Moriando, and Thomas Mann - with…
11 months, 3 weeks ago