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Story of Writing November 6, 2023
Season 1 Episode 166
The Charter of the Forest is sealed, and the birthday club includes Derrick Bell, Michael Cunningham, and Colton Whitehead - with a reading from "Ann…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 5, 2023
Season 1 Episode 165
Guy Fawkes is found guarding a large pile of gunpowder under the English House of Parliament, Susan B. Anthony is arrested and fined $100 for voting,…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 4, 2023
Season 1 Episode 164
Sigmund Freud publishes "The Interpretation of Dreams," and happy birthday to Will Rogers and Charles Frazier - with a reading from Will Rogers newsp…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 3, 2023
Season 1 Episode 163
England's first and second Act of Supremacy, Olympe de Gouges is guillotined for writing about women's rights, creating the Great Swamp National Wild…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 2, 2023
Season 1 Episode 162
The Balfour Declaration, Penguin Books faces prosecution for publishing "Lady Chatterley's Lover," LBJ and his "Wise Men" decide to give the U.S. mor…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing November 1, 2023
Season 1 Episode 161
William Shakespeare's "Othello" and "The Tempest" premier in London, English statesman Edmund Burke publishes his polemic on the French Revolution, t…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing October 31, 2023
Season 1 Episode 160
Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on a church door, the Netherlands' Leiden University Library opens, today's birthday club includes Marie Louise And…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing October 30, 2023
Season 1 Episode 159
Nat Turner is arrested for starting a slave revolt in Virginia, Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, the radio broadcast of H. G. Wells’s "…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing October 29, 2023
Season 1 Episode 158
The opera "Don Giovanni" opens in Prague, The Red Cross is established, "Black Tuesday" on the New York Stock Exchange, and happy birthday to David R…
2 years, 6 months ago
Story of Writing October 28, 2023
Season 1 Episode 157
Christopher Columbus lands in Japan - or so he thought, Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean, the first and oldest university in the new worl…
2 years, 6 months ago