90 Second Narratives

“When American soldier William Eaton started his search for Hamet Karamanli in late 1804, he had an audacious plan…

So begins today’s story from Dr. Abby Mullen.

For more, listen to the Consolation Prize podcast. 

Episode transcript:
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“I am looking at a square cotton canvas about 10 cm by 10 cm. A grid of black and white tiles – they look like domino counters - have been painted on it in alternating patterns. This canvas was given to me by the wonderful artist and Turner Prize winner, Lubaina Himid CBE…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Anna Arabindan-Kesson. 

For further reading:
Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton and Commerce in the Atlantic World by Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Duke University Press, 2021) 

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“Crossing the thresholds between worlds…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. J. T. Roane.

For further reading:

“A Totally Different Form of Living: On the Legacies of Displacement and Marronage as Black Ecologies” Southern Cultures 27 (2021) by Justin Hosbey and J. T. Roane

Episode transcript:
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“On November 20, 1930 the Ulúa arrived in Limón, Costa Rica with four Chinese passengers carrying Costa Rican passports…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Benjamín Narváez. 

For further reading:
“The Power and Pitfalls of Patronage: Chinese Immigrants in Costa Rica during the Era of Exclusion, 1897–1943” Journal of Migration History 6 (2020) 

Episode transcript:
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“For those who have not yet tasted soju, or heard about it, soju is the distinctive national spirit of Korea, a clear and colorless distilled liquor similar to vodka. It was only available inside Korea in the twentieth century, but soju is now one of the world’s most popular drinks…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Hyunhee Park.

For further reading:
Soju: A Global History by Hyunhee Park (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

This special episode combines all the stories from Season 7…

“Togolese Women in the Struggle for Independence” – Marius Kothor, PhD candidate in the Department of History at Yale University 

“Taungurung Community in Australia” – Dr. Jennifer Jones, Associate Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, Archaeology and History at La Trobe University’s Albury-Wodonga Campus

“Native Americans in Anti-Colonial Networks” – Dr. Justin Gage, Visiting Researcher at the University of Helsinki and Instructor at the University of Arkansas

“An Islamic Community in Nineteenth-Century West Africa” – Dr. Mauro Nobili, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“The Church Order in the Protestant Reformation” – Dr. Sky Michael Johnston, Associated Fellow, Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) Mainz

“Underdogs in the American Imagination” – Dr. Bruce Berglund, Historian

“Community in Loneliness” – Dr. Fay Bound Alberti, Reader in History at the University of York

“Healers in Seventeenth-Century Angola” – Dr. Kalle Kananoja, Senior Researcher in the Department of History at University of Oulu

“Intellectuals in Hindustan” – Dr. Manan Ahmed Asif, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University

“The story that I want to tell you is about loneliness…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Fay Bound Alberti.

For further reading:
A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion by Fay Bound Alberti (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“Even someone who is well-versed in the history and theology of the Protestant Reformation might not know much about the subject of this story: the church order…

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

For further reading:
James M. Estes, “Johannes Brenz and the Institutionalization of the Reformation in Württemberg,” Central European History 6 (1973) 

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“In 1698, a batch of denunciations was collected in the Jesuit college of Luanda, Angola…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Kalle Kananoja. 

For further reading:
Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1850 by Kalle Kananoja (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“The Black Spur Drive in Australia’s scenic Yarra Ranges wends through ‘majestic Mountain Ash forests’ and past gurgling brooks, taking tourists to lush beauty spots…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Jennifer Jones.

For further reading:
On Taungurung Land: Sharing History and Culture by Jennifer Jones (Australian National University Press, 2020) 

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/