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Story of Writing November 16, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1116
Fyodor Dostoevsky is sentenced to death, and the birthday club includes Chinua Achebe and Andrea Barrett - with a reading from Elinore Pruitt Stewart…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 15, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1115
Sherman's "March to the Sea" and why we call it that - with a reading from Sam Byers' "Sherman's March to the Sea."
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 14, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1113
"Moby Dick" is published in the US, Nellie Bly begins her attempt to travel around the world in 80 days, and Ruby Bridges desegregates her elementary…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 13, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1113
Walt Disney releases "Fantasia," the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Alabama's racist segregation of buses violated the Constitution, and Seymour Hersh…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 12, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1112
The World Wide Web is proposed and the birthday club includes John McGahern, Sarah Harmer, and Richelle Mead - with a reading from McGahern's "The Da…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 11, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1111
The Mayflower Compact is signed, the Armistice ending World War I is signed, and in the U.S. the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is consecrated. The birt…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 10, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1110
The Cult of Reason, Canada and the U.S. receive the top-secret message that at the 11th hour of the next day, WWI would end, direct dialing starts, "…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 9, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1109
Kristallnacht, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the birthday club includes Maud Howe Elliott, Mary Travers, Ti-Grace Atkinson, and Allison Wolfe - wi…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 8, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1108
Mary Lyon establishes Mount Holyoke, Black and White workers go on strike together for the first time in the U.S., and U.S. President Franklin D. Roo…
1 year, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 7, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1107
The first issue of the London Gazette is published, Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation is extended to slaves in the American colonies, abolitionist…
1 year, 6 months ago