Story of Writing June 28, 2026
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, European powers sign the Treaty of Versailles, and it's Mel Brooks' birthday - with a reading from his memoir "All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business."
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, European powers sign the Treaty of Versailles, and it's Mel Brooks' birthday - with a reading from his memoir "All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business."
The birthday club includes Emma Goldman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Helen Keller, and Grace Lee Boggs - with a reading from Boggs' "The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century."
American soldiers arrive in France to join the Allies fighting WWI, the Allies that won Victory in Europe signed the charter creating the United Nations, Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" was first published, J...
Custer makes his last stand and the birthday club includes David Douglas and George Orwell - with a reading from Orwell's "1984."
The birthday club includes Ambrose Bierce and Mary Wesley - with a reading from Wesley's "The Camomile Lawn."
The U.S. approves its first birth-control pill, Title IX is amended, Nixon incriminates himself, and it's the 10th anniversary of Brexit - with a reading from Julie Phillips' "What Contraception Meant to a Century of Wom...
Establishing the U.S. Department of Justice and the Cuyahoga River catches on fire, again. This episode includes a reading from a speech in 1866 by Ohio Representative William Lawrence on the need for a Department of Jus...
Marie-Joseph Angelique is sentenced to death for burning Old Montreal, three voting-rights organizers are murdered in Mississippi, and it is Jean-Paul Sartre's birthday - with a reading from Sartre's "Nausea."
Samuel Morse gets the patent for the telegraph, the destructive Detroit race riot of 1943 begins, and it is the birthday of Lillian Hellman - with a reading from her book "An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir."
The first game of baseball, Juneteenth, and JFK's civil rights legislation - with readings from Ralph Ellison and JFK, himself.Link to the Juneteenth reading list compiled by the National Museum of African American Histo...
Napoleon Bonaparte is defeated at Waterloo, Charles Darwin learns that another naturalist is about to publish a theory of evolution nearly identical to Darwin's, England's PM Winston Churchill gives his speech now called...
Sir Francis Drake makes a land claim on America's Pacific Coast that inspired the idea of Manifest Destiny. The Battle of Bunker Hill - the first salvo in America's Revolutionary War - begins near Boston, the Statue of L...
The first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is formed, Abraham Lincoln gives his "A House Divided" speech, it is Bloomsday! And it is the birthday of novelist Joyce Carol Oates - with a reading from her bo...
England's King John signs the Magna Carta, Arlington National Cemetery is established, and the birthday club includes Josiah Henson and Harry Nilsson - with a reading from Nilsson's song "Everybody's Talking."
It's Flag Day in the U.S., Charles Babbage proposes his "difference engine," the Bear Flag Revolt made northern Mexico the U.S. state of California, and it is Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday - with a reading from her la...
Miranda rights become a requirement, Thurgood Marshall is nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, "The New York Times" starts publishing the Pentagon Papers, and it is the birthday of poet William Butler Yeats. This episode...
The state of Virginia adopts George Mason's Declaration of Rights, Anne Frank is given a blank diary for her 13th birthday, and SCOTUS announces its ruling in Loving v. Virginia, and the birthday club includes Rona Jaffe...
!!Content Warning!! This episode includes descriptions of suicide, racism, and murder as a hate crimeThe story of a day: this day in 1963 began with the self-immolation of a Buddhist monk in Vietnam, it saw racism in the...
The Salem Witch Trials result in executions and the birthday club includes Blues man Howlin' Wolf and author Saul Bellow. This episode includes a reading from Bellow's "Seize the Day."
France and China sign the Treaty of Tientsin - making Vietnam a French colony and the birthday club includes Cole Porter, Robert McNamara, and Jackie Wilson - with a reading from Porter's "Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love...
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