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Story of Writing March 29, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 329
Canada gets its birthday, residents of Washington, D.C. get the vote, and (the rest of) the birthday club includes Sheila Kitzinger, Eric Idle, Alec …
2 years, 1 month ago
Story of Writing March 28, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 328
Happy birthdays to Maxim Gorky, Nelson Algren, Iris Chang, and Jennifer Weiner - with a reading from Algren's "The Neon Wilderness."
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 27, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 327
U.S. President Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the birthday club includes Jane Colden Charles Mackay, Jelena Demitrijevic, an…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 26, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 326
The first printing of Aesop's Fables in English, signing the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, and the birthday club includes Julie-Victoire Daubie, Robert …
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 25, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 325
Sir Walter Raleigh gets a royal patent to settle North America, Percy Bysshe Shelley gets booted from Oxford for publishing "The Necessity of Atheism…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 24, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 324
The UK passes the Quartering Act, the cause of tuberculosis is discovered, and the birthday club includes Matilda Joslyn Gage, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 23, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 323
Patrick Henry gives his "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech, Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero implores his nation's military to stop murderi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 22, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 322
The first treaty between native Americans and European settlers, the first patent for the laser, a big win for reproductive freedom at the U.S. Supre…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 21, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 321
Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution, the first comic-con, the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate, and the birthday club includes Dorothea…
2 years, 2 months ago
Story of Writing March 20, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 320
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is published, so is Einstein's theory of relativity, and the birthday club includes Ovid, Anne Bradstreet, and Carl Reiner - and …
2 years, 2 months ago