Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters®
— a podcast where we talk about historical drama series and films. Biopics, Adaptations, and Costume Dramas—stories that give us a window to the past, and a mirror of the present. Makers, writers and other guests join us in the conversation about what’s new in historical drama and what’s worth watching. Hosted by real-life sisters Michon and Taquiena Boston who binge on historical drama.
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REVOLUTION TO RIGHTS: AMERICA AT 250
January - October 2026
10-episode podcast series from Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters® featuring historical dramas that take you on a journey through America’s 250-year history of people working to achieve, extend, and strengthen rights named in the Declaration of Independence, and later the U.S. Constitution.
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Michon is a writer (New York Times, Washington Post Magazine, Washington CityPaper) and media impact producer who works with documentary and narrative films to raise awareness and inspire action on the critical concerns of our times. She is also a cultural historian, and walking tour guide who brings the history of DC’s jazz age and literary history to life. Michon is the author of “Iola’s Letter: The Memphis Crusade of Ida B. Wells,” a play about the anti-lynching newspaper woman and activist, Ida B. Wells. She is writing a play inspired by “The Three Musketeers” author Alexandre Dumas’s food writings. While a student at Oberlin College she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to research the history of Black women who attended Oberlin in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Meet The Boston Sisters
Michon and Taquiena Boston are real-life sisters who grew up surrounded by history in Washington, DC, where their parents introduced them to movies and took them to museums as entertainment.
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Taquiena Boston, a culture change strategist and coach, has earned theater degrees from Howard University and the University of Michigan. In addition to streaming and binge watching historical drama, Taquiena enjoys travel -- especially by train -- museums, fashion, reading food history and cookbooks, and cooking. Her interests and adventures are influenced by watching films about history and historical dramas, including a train ride she made from Paris to Venice on the refurbished Orient Express. She saved for the trip as a special birthday gift after seeing the film, “Murder on the Orient Express.”
Ep. 93 | FRANKLIN - The American Revolution’s French Connection
In episode 93 of Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters, we get into the real Benjamin Franklin with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff—co-executive producer of the 2024 Apple TV series FRANKLIN (starring Academy Award-winner Michael Douglas) inspired by Schiff’s award-winning book A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. This is the Franklin many American history classes probably left out.
Ep. 85 | GLORY - Black Soldiers Fighting for Freedom in the American Civil War
Episode 85 features a conversation about the history seen in the 1989 film GLORY with Frank Smith, founder and executive director of the African American Civil War Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Smith shares the history of the museum, established to honor the over 200,000 African American soldiers and sailors who fought for freedom during the Civil War. He highlights the challenges faced by these freedom fighters, including racial discrimination and segregation.
Ep. 72 - NISEI - Japanese Americans Torn Between Country and Family during World War II
Episode 72 features a conversation with Darren Haruo Rae, writer/director for NISEI, a short film that shines a light on an all-Japanese-American troop of soldiers who fought in World War II for a country imprisoning them and their families because of their ancestry. The story is inspired by the filmmaker's Japanese American grandfather's WWII experiences in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
Ep. 70 - CALL THE MIDWIFE - Behind-the-Scenes with Sister Julienne
Episode 70 goes behind the scenes of CALL THE MIDWIFE with Jenny Agutter who portrays Sister Julienne in the series. Jenny Agutter has been with CALL THE MIDWIFE since the series premiere in 2012. Created and written by Heidi Thomas, CALL THE MIDWIFE is based on the trilogy of memoirs by Jennifer Worth about her experiences as a midwife nurse in London’s East End during the 1950s (Season 14 is set in 1970).
Ep. 66 - THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT - Hidden Figures of World War II
In episode 66, The Boston Sisters (Michon and Taquiena) dive into the Tyler Perry film THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT with Brenda L. Moore, associate professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo and author of “To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II.” Both the book and film tell the story of the only Women’s Army Corps unit of color to serve overseas in World War Two and their extraordinary mission.
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