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90 Second Narratives

Written by: Sky Michael Johnston
  • Summary

  • 90 Second Narratives is a podcast featuring engaging true stories told by trained historians. Each episode includes a short story interwoven with expert analysis of the story’s historical significance. The concise length and storytelling format of the episodes make history accessible, dynamic, and entertaining. The subjects of the stories are diverse—spanning the globe and ranging from the pre-historic to the modern age. While individual stories stand alone, the episodes in each season are linked thematically and combine to offer comparative perspectives that illuminate connections from across the human experience. Every episode also includes recommendations for further reading. 90 Second Narratives provides a novel way to hear historians share the wonders of the past in their own voices.
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Episodes
  • A Season of Stories 10: Seeking Justice
    Jan 3 2023

    This special episode combines all the stories from Season 10…

    “The Cepalinos’ Global Fight against Inequality” – Dr. Margarita Fajardo, Alice Stone Ilchman Chair in Comparative and International Studies, Sarah Lawrence College

    “Addressing Slavery in the Museum” – Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo, Professor of History, Howard University

    “The Perseverance of Menominee Women” – Dr. Jillian Marie Jacklin, Lecturer in Democracy and Justice Studies, History, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

    “Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Harlem” – Dr. Sky Michael Johnston

    “Creative Community Responses to Climate Change in New England” – Emma C. Moesswilde, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History, Georgetown University

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    17 mins
  • Creative Community Responses to Climate Change in New England
    Jun 7 2022

    “In the spring of 1816, the weather in New England turned suddenly chilly. A distant volcanic eruption of Mt. Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 had expelled sulfur dioxide particles into the atmosphere in such quantity that they reduced the amount of solar energy that could reach Earth’s surface…”

    So begins today’s story from Emma C. Moesswilde.

    For further listening:

    Climate History

    For further reading:

    J. Luterbacher and C. Pfister, “The Year Without a Summer,” Nature Geoscience 8 (2015): 246–48.

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    4 mins
  • The Cepalinos’ Global Fight against Inequality
    Apr 25 2022

    “In mid-twentieth-century Latin America, an intellectual movement that changed the region, the world, and the global economy emerged. The members of the movement were called cepalinos…”

    So begins today’s story from Dr. Margarita Fajardo.

    For further reading:

    The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era by Margarita Fajardo (Harvard University Press, 2022)

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    4 mins

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