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Story of Writing November 16, 2023
Season 1 Episode 176
Fyodor Dostoevsky is sentenced to death, and the birthday club includes Chinua Achebe and Andrea Barrett - with a reading from "Letters of a Woman Ho…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 15, 2023
Season 1 Episode 175
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea - with a reading from the poem that named this campaign against the Confederate St…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 14, 2023
Season 1 Episode 174
"Moby-Dick" is published in the U.S., Nellie Bly begins her attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days, Ruby Bridges desegregates her Lo…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 13, 2023
Season 1 Episode 173
Walt Disney releases "Fantasia," SCOTUS rules against segregation of Alabama's public buses, reporter Seymour Hersh breaks the story on the My Lai Ma…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 12, 2023
Season 1 Episode 172
Pudge Heffelfinger, the World Wide Web is formally proposed, and happy birthday to Richelle Mead and Sarah Harmer - with a reading from "The Devil's …
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 11, 2023
Season 1 Episode 171
The Mayflower Compact is signed, so is the armistice that ended World War I, the U.S. Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated, and the birthday club includ…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 10, 2023
Season 1 Episode 170
The Cult of Reason, a top-secret coded message is sent across the Atlantic to alert Ottawa and Washington, D.C. that World War I would end the next d…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 9, 2023
Season 1 Episode 169
Kristallnacht, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the birthday club includes Maud Howe Elliott, Mary Travers, Ti-Grace Atkinson, and Allison Wolfe - wi…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 8, 2023
Season 1 Episode 168
Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, Black and white union members in New Orleans strike together, FDR presents the Civil Works Administra…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 7, 2023
Season 1 Episode 167
The London Gazette, Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy is murdered by a mob bent on destroying his printing press, the…
2 years, 6 months ago