Origins OSU
"Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective" connects history with today. Every month since 2007 on our web site at origins.osu.edu, we’ve provided historical insight on current events that matter to the United States & the world. In 2016 we launched this channel to share videos based on written features from our web site as well as webinars. Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective is a collaboration between the history departments of Ohio State University in Columbus and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
We hope that Origins will help you understand the world more fully. To provide the best and most interesting content, we have and continue to partner with other like-minded organizations.
The final goal of Origins is to make us all more informed, engaged citizens. As the American philosopher John Dewey wrote, “History which is not brought down close to the actual scene of events leaves a gap.”

The Discovery of Pluto

10 Iconic World Series

Gwangju Then and Now

Project Blue Book: America's Obsession with UFOs

1066: The Normans Conquer England

The War of the Pacific (1879-1884): Chile vs. Peru & Bolivia

Michael Santiago, a Picturing Black History Interview

The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster

The Legacy of the Magna Carta

The Birth of Peronism

Top 10 Popes Before 1500

The Trump Administration’s Domestic Policies: Insights from History

Trump's Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective

Albert Hofmann and the Discovery of LSD

The Kent State Massacre

Justice for the Rwandan Genocide

The Great Fire of Rome

The Tunguska Mystery Explosion

Early Encounters with Penguins

10 Great World War II Films

Haile Selassie I and an Independent Ethiopia

American Gothic Reimagined

Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon

The Berlin Airlift

The Founding of the People's Republic of China

The Story of Poinsettia Day and U.S.-Mexico Relations

Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster

What was Wrong with the Judges at the Salem Witch Trials?

Our Top 10 Historical Musicals

Postwar Decolonization and its Discontents