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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
Story of Writing September 29, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 929
League of Nations mandates go into effect in the Mid-East - more than 100 years later, we still feel the impacts. The birthday club includes Miguel d…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing September 28, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 928
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin and happy birthdays to Ben E. King, and George W. S. Trow - with a reading from Trow's "Within the Context of …
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing September 27, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 927
Rachel Carson publishes her landmark book "Silent Spring" - with a reading from three of her writings.
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing September 26, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 926
Albert Einstein publishes his theory on special relativity, a Nazi official publishes his valuations of everything left behind by Jewish people who w…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing September 25, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 925
The U.S. Bill of Rights is passed, the Columbia School of Journalism is founded, and the Little Rock Nine integrate a school in Arkansas. Happy birth…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing September 24, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 924
The Gold Ring causes the gold panic, the leader of the Church of Latter Day Saints says he has a vision to ban polygamy, Atlanta is convulsed by whit…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing September 23, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 923
Signing the Karlstad Treaty dissolves the union of Norway and Sweden, and the birthday club includes John Lomax, Ray Charles, Bruce Springsteen, and …
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing September 22, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 922
The last executions of people found guilty of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony and U.S. President Abraham Lincoln releases his prelimina…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing September 21, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 921
Benedict Arnold betrays George Washington and the American colonists, and the birthday club includes H. G. Wells, Allen Lane, Chuck Jones, and Stephe…
1 year, 10 months ago