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Story of Writing July 28, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 728
Lavinia Ream is commissioned to create a statue of Abraham Lincoln, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, Pres. Hoover orders the …
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 27, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 727
Things head south for the actual MacBeth, Robespierre is arrested, researchers prove insulin regulates blood sugar, Bugs Bunny appears in a Merry Mel…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 26, 2024
The U.S. Post Office is created, the first book on Esperanto was published, and the major world powers signed the Potsdam Declaration. Happy birthday…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 25, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 725
Mozart finishes his 40th Symphony, Jack London sails from San Francisco for gold in the Yukon, and JFK says any attack on West Berlin would be treate…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 24, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 724
O. Henry gets out of prison, the Kellogg-Briand Pact goes into effect, SCOTUS rules Pres. Nixon could not ignore a subpoena for the White House tapes…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 23, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 723
The Ford Motor Co. sells its first car, Chinese Communists meet for the first time to overthrow capitalism, and Phillippe Petain is put on trial in F…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 22, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 722
Katherine Lee Bates starts writing the poem that would become "America the Beautiful." And happy birthday to Emma Lazarus - with a reading of her poe…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 21, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 721
The first showdown in America's Wild West, the Scopes "Monkey" Trial ends with a verdict of guilty, and a reading from Willa Cather's "My Mortal Enem…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 20, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 720
Humans walk on the moon for the first time, and happy birthdays to Gregor Mendel, Tom Crean, Edmund Hillary, and Julie Bindel. Today's episode includ…
1 year, 10 months ago
Story of Writing July 19, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 719
The Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention begins, and it is the birthday of Alice Dunbar-Nelson - with a reading from her poem "If I Had Known."
1 year, 10 months ago