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Story of Writing March 28, 2026
Season 26 Episode 328
The birthday club includes Maxim Gorky, Nelson Algren, Iris Chang, and Jennifer Weiner - with a reading from Algren's "Chicago: City of the Make."
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Story of Writing March 27, 2026
Season 26 Episode 327
Congress overcomes a Presidential veto to pass the 1866 Civil Rights Act and the birthday club includes Jane Colden, Charles Mackay, Jelena Dimitrije…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Story of Writing March 26, 2026
Season 26 Episode 326
Egypt and Israel sign their first peace treaty and the birthday club includes, Frenchwoman Julie Victoire Daubie, Robert Frost, Joseph Campbell, Vikt…
2 months ago
Story of Writing March 25, 2026
Season 26 Episode 325
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire erupts, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to Civil Rights marchers who just reached Montgomery, Alabama…
2 months ago
Story of Writing March 24, 2026
Season 26 Episode 324
The birthday club includes Matilda Joslyn Gage and Lawrence Ferlinghetti - with a reading from Gage's book "Woman, Church, and State."
2 months ago
Story of Writing March 23, 2026
Season 26 Episode 323
Patrick Henry gives his speech "Give me liberty or give me death!" Bishop Oscar Romero asks for peace in El Salvador and the birthday club includes A…
2 months ago
Story of Writing March 22, 2026
Season 26 Episode 322
The first treaty is signed between Indigenous people and European-Americans, SCOTUS rules that single people can have contraceptives, and the birthda…
2 months ago
Story of Writing March 21, 2026
Season 26 Episode 321
Tennessee passes a law prohibiting the teaching of human evolution in schools, the first Comic Con, and the birthday club includes Dorothea Beale, So…
2 months ago
Story of Writing March 20, 2026
Season 26 Episode 320
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes her landmark novel (in two volumes) and it is Henrik Ibsen's birthday - with a reading from his well-known play "A Do…
2 months ago
Story of Writing March 19, 2026
Season 26 Episode 319
The birthday club includes Minna Canth, Philip Roth, and Clara Breed - with a reading from Breed's "Americans with the Wrong Answers."
2 months, 1 week ago