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 HistoryFor 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 Brandies 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

“Many long-term friendships change over time with the seasons of life. This was certainly true in the case of Frederick II, King of Prussia, known as Frederick the Great…”So begins today's story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.For further reading:Frederick the Great: King of Prussia by Tim Blanning (Random House, 2016)

“I want to tell you about the friendship between two women, nearly two centuries ago, that's had a very long tail in Mexican history. On February first, 1840, shortly after arriving in Mexico City, Fanny Calderón de la Barca – the Scottish wife of the new Spanish ambassador – met doña María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco…”So begins today's story from Dr. Silvia Marina Arrom. For further reading:La Guera Rodriguez: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine by Silvia Marina Arrom (University of California Press, 2021)

“‘The true scholar,' the 18th-century North African Sufi master Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani told his disciples, ‘is the one who gives form to what is clear, and clarifies what is ambiguous, and this from the strength of his knowledge, the breadth of his understanding, the soundness of his spiritual vision (naẓr) and his verification (taḥqīq)'…” So begins today's story from Dr. Zachary Wright.For further reading:Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World by Zachary Valentine Wright (University of North Carolina Press, 2020)

“Historians point to the year 1648 as a watershed moment in the development of religious tolerance in Europe. In that year, the Peace of Westphalia brought an end to the Thirty Year's War—one of Europe's grimmest chapters of religiously-inflected violence…”So begins today's story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.For further reading:Michael Warren Murphy, “‘No Beggars amongst Them': Primitive Accumulation, Settler Colonialism, and the Dispossession of Narragansett Indian Land,” Humanity & Society 42 (2018).John M. Barry, Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty, New York: Penguin Books, 2012.

“Historians like to say, everything has a history. Recently, the history of animals, has seen some development. The history of dogs, living closely beside humans for millennia as guards, workers, hunting aids and companions, illustrates a relationship with nature over time and sheds light on how our species has understood our role on our planet as owners, custodians, or exploiters of the natural world, and it includes ambiguous friendships…” So begins today's story from Dr. Claudia Kreklau.For further reading:Parry, Tyler D., and Charlton W. Yingling. “Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas.” Past & Present 246 (2020): 69–108.A.W.H. Bates, (ed.), Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain: A Social History, The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017. 

This special episode combines all the stories from Season 8…“A Black Woman's Spiritual Journey to the City” – Dr. J. T. Roane, Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies at Arizona State University“Cotton: Connecting the Atlantic World” – Dr. Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University“Soju: A Liquor's Global Journey” – Dr. Hyunhee Park, Associate Professor of History at the City University of New York, John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center“The Columbian Exchange” – Dr. Sky Michael Johnston, Associated Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) Mainz“Hotel Owners and the Shape of Japanese Transpacific Migration” – Dr. Yukari Takai, Research Associate at the York Centre for Asian Research at York University and Visiting Research Scholar at the International Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan“Chinese Migration and the Shaping of Costa Rica” – Dr. Benjamín Narváez, Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Morris“A US Consul on the Road to a Coup” – Dr. Abby Mullen, Term Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and Host/Executive Producer of the Consolation Prize podcast“Using Astrology to Plan Journeys” – Dr. Sky Michael Johnston“The ‘Conflict Thesis': A Resilient Idea's Journey” – Dr. James C. Ungureanu, Humanities Teacher at Trinity Classical Academy in Santa Clarita, California

"What factors do you take into consideration before going on a journey? Do you have any sense of when is a good time for a journey? Or, a good time for a specific type of journey? In sixteenth-century Germany, people had a way of systematizing the good and bad times for many of life's activities, including travel…"So begins today's story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.For further reading:Der Bawren Practica oder Wetterbüchlein

“When historians of science and religion write about the ‘conflict thesis,' what are they talking about?”So begins today's story from Dr. James C. Ungureanu. For further reading:Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict by James C. Ungureanu (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019)

“At the turn of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Japanese migrants left their island nation, landed in Hawai'i, only to depart for Seattle, San Francisco, Vancouver, or Victoria…”So begins today's story from Dr. Yukari Takai.For further reading:Yukari Takai, “Recrafting Marriage in Meiji Hawai'i, 1885-1913,” Gender & History, 31, 3 (2019), 646-664.

“One of the most famous, and consequential, journeys in the history of humanity was Christopher Columbus' fateful journey across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492…”So begins today's story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.For further reading:The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 by Alfred W. Crosby (1972) Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“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:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“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. RoaneEpisode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“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:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“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/

“In Togo, people often tell a popular story about the country’s independence. The story goes something like this…”So begins today’s story from Marius Kothor. Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“By the late 1870s, after years of resistance, most western Native Americans had been forced onto reservations, those ever-shrinking pieces of land created by the United States government to contain and separate Natives…”So begins today’s story by Dr. Justin Gage.For further reading:We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us: Native Networks and the Spread of the Ghost Dance by Justin Gage (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020)American Native Networks Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith explores the intertwined histories of a West African Arabic chronicle, the Tārīkh al-fattāsh and its role in advancing a political project, the legitimation of the nineteenth-century Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi, located in what is now the Republic of Mali…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Mauro Nobili.For further reading:Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith: Aḥmad Lobbo, the Tārīkh al-fattāsh and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa by Mauro Nobili (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“Sports are an important ingredient in building community. Whether you’re a participant or a spectator, sports allow you to take part in a visible, public activity, fostering social connection and a sense of shared identity…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Bruce Berglund.For further reading:The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports by Bruce Berglund (University of California Press, 2020).Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“Muhammad Qasim Firishta was a physician, a diplomat and an intellectual. Born around 1570 CE and died sometimes after 1620 CE in the Deccan, contemporary India, he was known for his way around libraries and around circles of power…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Manan Ahmed Asif.For further reading:The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India by Manan Ahmed Asif (Harvard University Press, 2020) Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

This special episode combines all of the stories from Season 6…“African American Periodicals and Print History” – Dr. Brenna Wynn Greer, Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College“Marketing Books with Peasant Models” – Dr. Sky Michael Johnston, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz“A Late Medieval ‘How To’ Book” – Dr. Melissa Reynolds, Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University“Paper and Books in Early Modern Europe” – Dr. Daniel Bellingradt, Professor at the Institute for the Study of the Book at Erlangen-Nuremberg University“Creating the Images in Early Modern Printed Books” – Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen, PhD candidate in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University“Books, Translations, and Audiences” – Dr. Samuel B. Keeley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz“Religion and the Business of Books” – Dr. Scott McLaren, Faculty Member in the Graduate Programs in Humanities and History and Associate Librarian in the Scott Library at York UniversityEpisode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“If a sixteenth-century European author, printer, or publisher wanted to include pictures in a book, they had several options…”So begins today’s story from Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen.For further reading and viewing:Chen, Jessie Wei-Hsuan. “A Woodblock’s Career: Transferring Visual Botanical Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries.” Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science 35 (2020): 20–63.The Plantin-Moretus Museum collection of woodcuts Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“In 1942, John H. Johnson launched Negro Digest, which quickly became a bestselling periodical among African Americans and building off its success, Johnson launched the black photo-magazine EBONY in 1945…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Brenna Wynn Greer.For further reading:Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship by Brenna Wynn Greer (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“When is a book not just a book? Well, as almost any cultural historian can tell you, a book is almost never just a book…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Scott McLaren.For further reading:Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada by Scott McLaren (University of Toronto Press, 2019)Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“In the nineteenth century, an ever-increasing volume of political and religious debates played out in the public sphere of printed books and journals. At the same time, more and more books were being translated and adapted for ever-expanding audiences in other countries…So begins today’s story from Dr. Samuel B. Keeley.For further reading:Behind Inverted Commas: Translation and Anglo-German Cultural Relations in the Nineteenth Century by Susanne Stark (Multilingual Matters, 1999)Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“This story is about one of the earliest models to appear on the printed page: the sixteenth-century German peasant…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.For further reading:Sky Michael Johnston. “Printing the Weather: Knowledge, Nature, and Popular Culture in Two Sixteenth-Century German Weather Books.” Renaissance Quarterly 73 no. 2 (2020): 391-440Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“Nicholas Neesbett was an experienced healer in fifteenth-century England…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Melissa Reynolds.For further reading:Melissa Reynolds. “The Sururgia of Nicholas Neesbett: Writing Medical Authority in Later Medieval England.” Social History of Medicine 34 (2021)How To: Reading Medicine and Science in England, 1400–1600 by Melissa Reynolds (forthcoming)Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“Almost every book from the fourteenth century onwards was made of paper, and every letter sent was a paper sheet folded. Early modern Europe was a paper age…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Daniel Bellingradt.For further reading:The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Materials, Networks edited by Daniel Bellingradt and Anna Reynolds (Brill, 2021)Vernetzte Papiermärkte: Einblicke in den Amsterdamer Handel mit Papier im 18. Jahrhundert by Daniel Bellingradt (Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2020)Vervlechting van de papiermarkt: De Amsterdamse papierhandel in de achttiende eeuw by Daniel Bellingradt (Uitgeverij Verloren, 2021) Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

This special episode combines all the stories from Season 5…“Billy Graham: Emblem of American Evangelicalism” – Dr. Aaron Griffith, Assistant Professor of History at Sattler College“Katharina von Bora: Paragon of the Protestant Household” – Dr. Sky Michael Johnston, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz“Francis of Assisi: Model of Medieval Sainthood” – Dr. Donna Trembinski, Associate Professor of History at St. Francis Xavier University“Adolphe Crémieux: Pioneering Justice Minister of France” – Dr. Noëmie Duhaut, Wiss. Mitarbeiterin, Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz“Dadabhai Naoroji: Leader of Indian Nationalism” – Dr. Dinyar Patel, Assistant Professor of History at the S P Jain Institute of Management and Research“Bob Marley: Icon of Dissent and Love” – Dr. Jeremy Prestholdt, Professor, Department of History at the University of California San Diego“Ida Pfeiffer: Pioneer of Leisure Travel” – Dr. Sky Michael Johnston“Audre Lorde: Embodiment of Black Internationalism” – Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil, Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“In 1984, Audre Lorde travelled to Berlin…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil.An extended version of this story is available on the podcast website.For further reading:Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement by Tiffany N. Florvil (University of Illinois Press, 2020)

“Adolphe Crémieux was the first Jewish minister in France and, in fact, in Europe…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Noëmie Duhaut.For further reading:Noëmie Duhaut, “L’Alliance israélite universelle, les Juifs roumains et l’idée d’Europe,” Archives Juives 53 (2020): 72-89Adolphe Crémieux: A Biography by S. Posener (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1940)

“Katharina von Bora was an iconic representative of the new household piety championed by her husband, Martin Luther…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.For further reading:Martin Treu, "Katharina von Bora, the Woman at Luther's Side," Lutheran Quarterly 13 (1999): 156–178.Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germanyby Amy Leonard (University of Chicago Press, 2005)The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg by Lyndal Roper (Oxford University Press, 1991) Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“In 1999, the BBC designated Bob Marley’s anthem, ‘One Love,’ the song of millennium…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Jeremy Prestholdt.For further reading:Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac and Bin Laden by Jeremy Prestholdt (Oxford University Press, 2019)Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“Ida Pfeiffer was an icon of leisure travel, before leisure travel was even a thing…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.For further reading:A Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North by Ida Pfeiffer.Wanderlust: The Amazing Ida Pfeiffer, the First Female Tourist by John van Wyhe (NUS Press, 2019).Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“Francis of Assisi is one of the most famous medieval saints. An icon, in his own time and today…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Donna Trembinski.For further reading:Illness and Authority: Disability in the Life and Lives of Francis of Assisi by Donna Trembinski (University of Toronto Press, 2020) Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/

“In 1972 the evangelical celebrity preacher Billy Graham filmed a television interview with talk show host Phil Donahue in a unique location: a women’s prison in Marysville, Ohio…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Aaron Griffith.For further reading:God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America by Aaron Griffith (Harvard University Press, 2020)Episode transcript:https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/