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Story of Writing October 9, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1009
Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the French abolish the death penalty, and the Taliban try to assassinate Malala Yousafz…
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 8, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1008
Joan Mance opens North America's first hospital, Der Spiegel faces accusations of treason, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature…
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 7, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1007
King George III signs the Royal Proclamation that - unintentionally - recognized aboriginal title, the McCollum memo is issued, and U.S. President Jo…
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 6, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1006
The first opera is performed, the music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia forms, the film "The Jazz Singer" premiers, and Annie Ernaux is awarded the …
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 5, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1005
PBS launches in the US and the birthday club includes Louise Fitzhugh and Neil DeGrasse Tyson - with a reading from Jane Austen's "Persuasion."
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 4, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1004
Willie Gillis makes his first appearance on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post and the birthday club includes Edward Stratemeyer, Donald Sobol, J…
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 3, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1003
Proclamations of Thanksgiving keep happening on this day and happy birthdays to Thomas Wolfe and Gore Vidal - with a reading from Wolfe's "You Can’t …
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 2, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1002
Thurgood Marshall becomes the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, and the birthday club includes Graham Greene, Don Mclean, Sting, and Mel…
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing October 1, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1001
"Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management" is published, Yosemite Park is established, and "In God We Trust" first appears on U.S. paper money. Hap…
1 year, 9 months ago
Story of Writing September 30, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 930
The signing of the Munich Agreement and Babi Yar. The birthday club includes, Rumi, Truman Capote, Elie Wiesel, Laura Esquivel, and Ta-Nehisi Coates …
1 year, 9 months ago