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Story of Writing March 27, 2025
Season 25 Episode 327
Congress overrides a veto of civil rights legislation and the birthday club includes Jane Colden, Charles Mackay, and Jelena Dimitrijević - with a re…
1 year, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 26, 2025
Season 25 Episode 326
The Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty is signed and the birthday club includes Julie-Victoire Daubie, Robert Frost, Joseph Campbell, Viktor Frankl, and Tenne…
1 year, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 25, 2025
Season 25 Episode 325
Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr speaks of the death of segregation, and the birthday club includes …
1 year, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 24, 2025
Season 25 Episode 324
The Quartering Act enrages American colonists, tuberculosis is identified, and the birthday club includes Matilda Joslyn Gage, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,…
1 year, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 23, 2025
Season 25 Episode 323
Patrick Henry speaks out during the Second Revolutionary convention, Archbishop Oscar Romero pleads for peace in El Salvador, and the birthday club i…
1 year, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 22, 2025
Season 25 Episode 322
The first treaty between indigenous tribes and European Americans is signed, the top court in the US rules in favor of contraceptives and pre-marital…
1 year, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 21, 2025
Season 25 Episode 321
The state of Tennessee prohibits the teaching of human evolution, the first comic-con, the UN Framework Convention on Climate, and the birthday club …
1 year, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 20, 2025
Season 25 Episode 320
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is published, Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity, the birthday club includes Ovid, Anne B…
1 year, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 19, 2025
Season 25 Episode 319
Minna Canth, Philip Roth, and Clara Breed were born on this day - with a reading from Breed's article "Americans with the Wrong Ancestors."
1 year, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 18, 2025
Season 25 Episode 318
Wilfred Owens, Fred Shuttlesworth, John Updike, Unita Blackwell, and Frances Cress Welsing - with a reading of Owens' "Anthem for Doomed Youth."
1 year, 2 months ago