Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

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Climate Change, Russia, and the Race for the Arctic
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Origins on Video

Albert Hofmann and the Discovery of LSD

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Milestones

Colonial Land Injustices in Post-Independence Zimbabwe

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Origins on Video

Justice for the Rwandan Genocide

A group of boys at Chirec International School in India playing Cricket, 2015.
Features

Cricket without Boundaries: The Story of a Global Game

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Origins on Video

The Great Fire of Rome

Ludwig van Beethoven in front of sheet music from his first symphony.
Milestones

Beethoven’s First Symphony

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A Well-Informed People
A Well-Informed People

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Picturing Black History

Picturing Black History, a collaboration with Getty Images, uncovers untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience.

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