“On January 10, 1928 Assistant City Solicitor William Laukaitis told a real estate salesman he wanted to buy an expensive lot in the suburban Baltimore neighborhood of Homeland…”&nbsp;So begins today’s story from Dr. Paige Glotzer.For further reading: <a href="http://cup.columbia.edu/book/how-the-suburbs-were-segregated/9780231179997">How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960</a> by Paige Glotzer (Columbia University Press, 2020)

Hargeisa: Anticolonialism from the Countryside to the City

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.