David Laskin
Award-winning author and weather-history researcher known for writing The Children's Blizzard; provides detailed historical context and firsthand-account narration about the 1888 Schoolchildren's Blizzard.
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Feb 24, 2026 • 37min
Schoolchildren's Blizzard | Not Forgotten | 5
David Laskin, award-winning author and weather-history researcher, offers a compact bio and vivid storytelling. He reconstructs the 1888 Schoolchildren's Blizzard through firsthand accounts. The conversation covers prairie settlement, communication failures in telegraph-era forecasts, meteorological causes, children’s roles and vulnerabilities, and how the storm shaped collective memory.
