90 Second Narratives

“In July of 1999, a coalition of activists from LGBT groups and from Local 11 of the Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO, dressed up as the Teletubbies character Tinky Winky and stormed the United Airlines ticket office in downtown San Francisco…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Ryan Patrick Murphy.

For further reading:
Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice by Ryan Patrick Murphy (Temple University Press, 2016)

“Many graduates of historically black colleges and universities committed their lives to helping their communities thrive in the midst of daunting circumstances…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Kimberly Hill.

For further reading:
A Higher Mission: The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa by Kimberly D. Hill (The University Press of Kentucky, 2020)

This special episode combines all the stories from Season 2…

“Baltimore: Housing Exclusion in Action” - Dr. Paige Glotzer, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Berlin: Little Neighborhood, Big Politics” - Dr. Teresa Walch, Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

“Kirkuk: A Highway to Expulsion” - Dr. Arbella Bet-Shlimon, Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington

“Port-au-Prince: Occupation and Solidarity” - Dr. Brandon R. Byrd, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University

“Hargeisa: Anticolonialism from the Countryside to the City” - Dr. Safia Aidid, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Toronto

“Ulm/Jakarta: Bringing Civic Identity Abroad” - Dr. Philip Hahn, Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen

“Detroit: Urban Gardening for Sustainability” - Dr. Joseph S. Cialdella, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan

“Atlantis: Plato, Myth, and History” - Dr. Benjamin B. Olshin, Associate Professor in the School of Critical Studies at the University of the Arts

“Connecting Distant Cities: Camels as Transportation” - Dr. Matthew Herbst, Professor at the University of California San Diego

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“Of the world’s camels, 90% are dromedaries…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Matthew Herbst.

For further reading:

The Camel and the Wheel by Richard W. Bulliet (Columbia University Press, 1990)

“Jakarta in late July, 1681…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Philip Hahn.

For further reading:

Philip Hahn, “‘Rather Back to Ceylon than to Swabia’: Global Sensory Experiences of Swabian Artisans in the Service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC),” in Embodiment, Expertise and Ethics in Early Modern Europe: Entangling the Senses (Routledge, 2020)

“In the 1970s, Iraq’s Ba‘th government escalated a campaign to ethnically cleanse the northern provincial city of Kirkuk, a multilingual town that had long been the hub of Iraq’s oil industry…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Arbella Bet-Shlimon.

For further reading:

City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk by Arbella Bet-Shlimon (Stanford University Press, 2019)

“On July 28, 1915, under the authority of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, USS Washington entered the harbor at Port-au-Prince…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Brandon R. Byrd.

For further reading:

The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haitiby Brandon R. Byrd (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).

“If you imagine residents of American cities at the turn of the twentieth century, you probably picture them working in factories, not vegetable gardens…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Joseph S. Cialdella 

For further reading:
Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit by Joseph Stanhope Cialdella (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)

“Tucked away in northwest Berlin, the quiet residential streets of Moabit’s Beusselkiez belie the drama they witnessed in the early twentieth century…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Teresa Walch.

For further reading:
Stormtroopers: A History of Hitler’s Brownshirts by Daniel Siemens (Yale University Press, 2017)
The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin: Politics, Consumption, and Urban Space, 1914 -1945 by (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

“I’d like to talk about the lost city of Atlantis. Well, it is not lost. It is simply missing…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Benjamin B. Olshin.

For further reading:
Lost Knowledge: The Concept of Vanished Technologies and Other Human Histories by Benjamin B. Olshin (Brill, 2019)