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Story of Writing October 27, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1027
Missouri's Governor issues the Extermination Order targeting Mormons, Vasily Arkhipov refuses to launch a Soviet nuclear weapon and spares humanity, …
1 year, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 26, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1026
Wyatt Earp is caught up in the gunfight that made Tombstone, Arizona famous and Ida B. Wells publishes her pamphlet "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in A…
1 year, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 25, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1025
The Charge of the Light Brigade, the Zinoviev letter, and happy birthdays to Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Anne Tyler, Zadie Smith, and Katy Perry - with a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 24, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1026
The U.S. transcontinental telegraph line goes live, the first time someone goes over Niagara Falls and survives, and Iceland's women go on strike. An…
1 year, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 23, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1023
The first national convention on Women’s Rights begins and happy birthdays to Ellie Greenwich and Michael Crichton - with a reading from Crichton's "…
1 year, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 22, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1022
The Cuban Missile Crisis begins and the birthday club includes Dorris Lessing, Timothy Leary, and Julie Dash - with a reading from Robert Louis Steve…
1 year, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 21, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1021
Thomas Edison applies for his patent for the incandescent lightbulb and Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" is published. The birthday club inclu…
1 year, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 20, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1020
The Louisiana Purchase is ratified, the U.N. approves the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, and th…
1 year, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 19, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1019
American colonists, helped by the French, won their independence from the British, "Black Monday," and the birthday club includes Miguel Ángel Asturi…
1 year, 7 months ago
Story of Writing October 18, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1018
Herman Melville's "The Whale" is first published and Phyllis Wheatley is freed. The birthday club includes Isabel Briggs Meyers, Martha Burk, Ntozake…
1 year, 7 months ago