Episode 35 In its written form telegraphese, or “Morse,” as it is called in the vernacular, is rarely seen. Yet as a vehicle of expression it is, to the initiated, as harmonious, subtle, and fascinating as the language of music

Episode 34 As soon as the order to disband the volunteers had gone forth, the North had begun to ask itself what they were going to do with the million men about to inundate them. http://traffic.libsyn.com/byline/Byline_34_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window

Episode 33 Great numbers of them had gone into the army boys and had been made men by danger and suffering. http://traffic.libsyn.com/byline/Byline_33_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSS   Disbanding the Union

Episode 32 The disbanded army faced their hard situation like the brave men they were, and joined patiently in one of the gravest tasks in the history of the world—the Reconstruction of the South.   http://traffic.libsyn.com/byline/Byline_32_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window

Episode 31 The worst of the ordeal of these men, who had begun to disband in this haphazard way, was not getting home, it was what they found when they got there.   http://traffic.libsyn.com/byline/Byline_31_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe:

Episode 30 Here was I, under sentence, after a farce of a trial wherein I was denied not only my right of trial by jury, but my right to plead guilty or not guilty.   http://traffic.libsyn.com/byline/Byline_30_Finished.mp3Podcast: Play in new window

Episode 29• My Life in the Underworld, part 2 • I am now in a precarious position, riding the ends of the down-curving roofs of two cars at the same time. With a quick, tense movement I transfer both legs

Episode 28• My Life in the Underworld, part 1 • I have often thought that to this training of my tramp days is due much of my success as a story-writer. In order to get the food whereby I lived,

Episode 27• The Author of Cyrano • I said that whatever he would write for me, on what ever subject, at what ever time, I would accept without question or reservation, and put on the stage at my own theater: rather

Episode 26• Under Fire • In times of war you constantly see men, and women, too, who, sooner than suffer discomfort or even inconvenience, risk death. http://traffic.libsyn.com/byline/Byline026.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSS

Episode 25• Paris at Bay! • As the little speck drew straight overhead, these human specks suddenly realized that they were in the line of fire, and scattered just as people run from a sudden shower. http://traffic.libsyn.com/byline/Byline_25_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window

Episode 24• The Germans Are Coming! • Into the fog of war that covered the Continent an army of Englishmen had vanished, none knew where. http://traffic.libsyn.com/byline/Byline_24_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSS SHOW

Episode 23• The Capture, Death and Burial of John Wilkes Booth • Even in his deep distress Booth had not forgotten to be theatrical. http://traffic.libsyn.com/byline/Byline_23_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSS SHOW NOTES

Episode 22• David Crockett and the Most Desperate Defense in American History • Nowhere but in America would such a career as Crockett’s have been possible. http://traffic.libsyn.com/byline/Byline_22_Final.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSS

Episode 21• Stories from the Archives of the Royal Humane Society • IT IS not so surprising that there is heroism in the world, as that there is so much of it. http://traffic.libsyn.com/byline/Byline021.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts