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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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 months ago
Story of Writing March 17, 2025
Season 25 Episode 317
It is the birthday of Bayard Rustin and Nat King Cole - with a reading from Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Enchanted Garden."
1 year, 4 months ago
Story of Writing March 16, 2025
Season 25 Episode 316
The birthday club includes Ethel Anderson, Eric P. Kelly, Ursula Goodenough, and Jorge Ramos - with a reading from Kelly's "The Christmas Nightingale…
1 year, 4 months ago
Story of Writing March 15, 2025
Season 25 Episode 313
It is the Ides of March, the US President says, "We Shall Overcome," and the birthday club includes "Lightnin'" Hopkins, Kate Bornstein, and Ben Okri…
1 year, 4 months ago
Story of Writing March 14, 2025
Season 25 Episode 314
The U.S. creates its first national wildlife refuge and the birthday club includes Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Albert Einstein, Billy Crystal, and Jerry Gr…
1 year, 4 months ago
Story of Writing March 13, 2025
Season 25 Episode 313
The U.S. passes the law that confirmed freedom to any enslaved person who escaped the South, and the birthday club includes Janet Flanner, L. Ron Hub…
1 year, 4 months ago