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Story of Writing June 5, 2025
Season 25 Episode 605
Harriet Beecher Stowe's landmark novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is first published, Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated, and "Tank Man" steps into history. …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing June 4, 2025
Season 25 Episode 604
The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment, the U.S. refuses to allow refugees fleeing the Nazis to enter the country, the evacuation of Dunkirk e…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing June 3, 2025
Season 25 Episode 603
DeSoto claims Florida, the Dutch West India Company is established, and it's the birthday of Memphis Minnie, Allen Ginsberg, Larry McMurtry, and Curt…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing June 2, 2025
Season 25 Episode 602
England enrages American colonists by expanding the Quartering Act and the birthday club includes Thomas Hardy, Dorothy West, and Norton Juster - wit…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing June 1, 2025
Season 25 Episode 601
Scotch Whisky first appears in print, Charles Baudelaire publishes his landmark book "Les fleur du mal" or "Flowers of Evil," Margaret Chase Smith de…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Story of Writing May 31, 2025
Season 25 Episode 531
The birthday club includes Walt Whitman, Fred Allen, Al Young, Svetlana Alexievich - with a reading from Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric."
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Story of Writing May 30, 2025
Season 25 Episode 530
The birthday club includes Countee Cullen, Mel Blanc, Benny Goodman, James Chaney, and Idina Menzel - with a reading of Cullen's "Saturday's Child."
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Story of Writing May 29, 2025
Season 25 Episode 529
Sojourner Truth gives her speech "Ain't I a Woman?" Igor Stravinsky premiers his "Rite of Spring" and Hillary and Norgay summit Mt. Everest. It is th…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Story of Writing May 28, 2025
Season 25 Episode 528
The Sierra Club is written into existence, so is Amnesty International, and the birthday club includes Ian Fleming, T-Bone Walker, and Maeve Binchy -…
1 year ago
Story of Writing May 27, 2025
Season 25 Episode 527
On this day, a look at the work of Julia Ward Howe, Dashiell Hammett, and Rachel Carson - with a reading from Carson's "Silent Spring."
1 year ago