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Story of Writing June 20, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 620
The telegraph and the telephone exchange come into being, the Detroit Race Riot, and happy birthday to Lillian Hellman - with a reading from her memo…
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing June 19, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 619
The first, official game of baseball is played, enslaved people in Texas were finally told they were free - creating Juneteenth, and President John F…
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing June 18, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 618
Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo, Charles Darwin learns that another naturalist had developed a theory of evolution that was nearly identical to his …
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing June 17, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 617
Sir Francis Drake claims "New Albion," which we now call Northern California, and American colonists lost the Battle of Bunker Hill - but they learne…
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing June 16, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 616
Abraham Lincoln delivers his speech "A House Divided" and it is Bloomsday. Happy birthday to Joyce Carol Oates - with a reading from her novel "Foxfi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing June 15, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 615
King John of England agrees to the Magna Carta, Benjamin Franklin publishes his thoughts on proving that lightning is electricity, and Arlington Nati…
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing June 14, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 614
Happy Flag Day (in the U.S.), Charles Babbage presents his "difference engine," and it's the anniversary of the "Bear Flag Revolt." Happy birthday to…
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing June 13, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 613
The birthday club includes George Weller, Marcia Brown, and Cameron Crowe. Today's reading is the poem "Miracles," written by Jean Blewett.
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing June 12, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 612
Virginia adopts the Declaration of Rights written by George Mason, Anne Frank is given a blank diary, and the U.S. Supreme Court rules interracial co…
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing June 11, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 611
A day of civil rights in 1963: Thích Quảng Đức set himself on fire in Saigon to protest a ban on Buddhist religious practice, Alabama Governor George…
2 years, 1 month ago