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Story of Writing June 7, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 607
Spain and Portugal carve up the wholly inaccurate map of the new world, England drafts the Petition of Right, and an American colonist proposes becom…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 6, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 606
The first, patented drive-in theater opens, and it's an important day for the WWII battle of Midway and the invasion of D-Day. The birthday club incl…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 5, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 605
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is published, Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated, and "Tank Man" stops a tank column in Beijing. And happy birthday to Federico Ga…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 4, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 604
The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment, the U.S. denies refuge to Jewish Germans fleeing the Nazis, the British evacuate their own troops from…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 3, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 603
Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain and the Dutch Parliament creates the West India Company. The birthday club includes Memphis Minnie, Allen G…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 2, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 602
The Pope bans enslaving native Americans, the second (and even more infuriating) version of the Quartering Act is passed, and indigenous people in th…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 1, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 601
Scotch Whisky first appears in print, Charles Baudelaire's "Les fleur du mal" is published, and Margaret Chase Smith delivers her speech "The Declara…
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing May 31, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 531
The birthday club includes Walt Whitman, Fred Allen, Al Young, and Svetlana Alexievich - with a reading from Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric."
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing May 30, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 530
The birthday club includes Countee Cullen, Mel Blanc, James Chaney, and Idina Menzel - with a reading of Cullen's "Saturday's Child."
1 year, 11 months ago
Story of Writing May 29, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 529
Sojourner Truth gives her "Ain't I A Woman?" speech, Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" premiers in Paris, and Hillary and Norgay reach the peak of E…
1 year, 11 months ago