90 Second Narratives

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

“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.

“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)

“On November 20, 1955, David Ames, an anthropologist and research associate with the Wisconsin Legislative Council’s Menominee Indian Study Committee spoke with Phebe Nichols Jewell the wife of Angus Lookaround at their home on the Menominee reservation in Northeast Wisconsin…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Jillian Marie Jacklin.

“Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the most significant theologians of the twentieth century. To this day, large audiences are still drawn to his important writings including The Cost of Discipleship, Life Together, and Ethics. But Bonhoeffer is even more widely-known for his remarkable and tragic biography…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston. 

For further viewing:
Dr. Victoria Barnett, “From Harlem to Berlin: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Experience of American Racism” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_iAL8GvSqk]

“In the past three decades black social actors, committed curators, public historians, and academics have pushed western museums to examine slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in their exhibition spaces. But the introduction of slavery in the museum has been very problematic…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo. 

For further reading:
Museums and Atlantic Slavery by Ana Lucia Araujo (Routledge, 2021)

This special episode combines all the stories from Season 9…

“Becoming a Friend of God in Eighteenth-Century North Africa” – Dr. Zachary Wright, Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies at Northwestern University in Qatar

“Posthumous Friendships between Jesuit Brothers” – Dr. Ulrike Strasser, Professor of History at the University of California San Diego

“Life’s Seasons and the Friendships of Frederick the Great” – Dr. Sky Michael Johnston, Associated Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) Mainz

“Otto von Bismarck’s Four-Legged Friends” – Dr. Claudia Kreklau, Associate Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews

“Narragansett Friendship, Roger Williams, and Religious Freedom in America” – Dr. Sky Michael Johnston

“The Friendship that Introduced a Heroine of Mexican Independence to the World” – Dr. Silvia Marina Arrom, Jane’s Professor of Latin American Studies Emerita in the History Department at Brandeis University

“On the Doors of the U.S. Supreme Court” – Dr. Sky Michael Johnston

“Today a flight from Prague to Guam covers an aerial distance of over 7,100 miles and takes about 15 hours. The journey may seem far, long, and cumbersome to many travelers. Yet today’s challenges pale when compared to those faced in 1678 by Augustinus Strobach…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Ulrike Strasser.

For further reading:

Missionary Men in the Early Modern World: German Jesuits and Pacific Journeys by Ulrike Strasser (Amsterdam University Press, 2020). Read it now for free via Open Access here.

“As enshrined on the door of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in bronze, John Marshall and Joseph Story were friends. But what was it that earned this pair of friends the most prominent place on these monumental seventeen-foot doors? It was this: their association with the 1803 Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison. That was the case that established the principle of judicial review, giving the federal courts power to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional…”

So continues today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.

For further reading:

Joseph Story, “Memoir of the Hon. John Marshall.”

“During a recent visit to Washington D.C. with my family, we visited the United States’ Supreme Court Building. It was a quiet Monday afternoon without a cloud in the sky…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.

For further reading:
“The Bronze Doors” Information Sheet