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Story of Writing June 19, 2025
Season 25 Episode 619
The first baseball game is played, enslaved people in Texas are told they are finally free, and President John F. Kennedy submits his Civil Rights Ac…
1 year, 1 month ago
Story of Writing June 18, 2025
Season 25 Episode 618
Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo, Charles Darwin learns that another naturist was about to publish a theory of evolution nearly identical to Darwin's…
1 year, 1 month ago
Story of Writing June 17, 2025
Season 25 Episode 617
Explorer Sir Francis Drake claims land on America's West Coast and sends a geopolitical ripple across 300 years of American history. American colonis…
1 year, 1 month ago
Story of Writing June 16, 2025
Season 25 Episode 616
Abraham Lincoln delivers his speech not known as "A House Divided," and it is Bloomsday. It is also the birthday of Joyce Carol Oates - with a readin…
1 year, 1 month ago
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…
1 year, 1 month 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 …
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month ago