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Story of Writing June 10, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 610
Bridget Bishop becomes the first person to be executed in the Salem Witch Trials and the group Alcoholics Anonymous is founded. Happy birthdays to Ho…
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing June 9, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 609
China and France sign the Treaty of Tientsin, and the birthday club includes Cole Porter, Robert McNamara, and Jackie Wilson - with a reading from Po…
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing June 8, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 608
James Madison proposes 12 Constitutional amendments, Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquity Act into law, and George Orwell's novel "1984" is publish…
2 years, 1 month ago
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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month ago