Connecting History | Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

Connecting History

Milestones

Hot off the Press

History Talk

Connecting History

New blogs and links to the best historical stuff on the web

A Postcard from Eastern Kazakhstan	Texas, Enron, and Energy Monopolies	The Environmental Threat of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
Black Women, Medical Racism, and COVID-19	The Rhyme of History: What the Black Death tells us about COVID-19’s Aftermath	Throwback Army: World War II-Style Uniforms for Today’s Soldiers
Quarantino: Plague and the Origins of Social Distancing	Renaming Southern Army Bases Is Nothing New	Cholera and Argentina: Insights for COVID-19
A Postcard from Livingstonia, Malawi	Black Canadians and Pandemics	Tuberculosis and the Optimism of Biomedicine
Licenses to Ill: Health Passes and Surveillance	Pandemics in Ottoman History: Plague, Cholera, and Influenza	Top Ten Contested Political Conventions
What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care	Mobilizing for Common Purpose in the COVID Era	Iraq's 1920 Revolution
Work and Life after COVID-19	Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective	Early American Contagions
Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the Age of COVID-19	The 1975 Mexico City World Conference on Women	Cholera and the Roots of Public Health
The Justinianic Plague	The Blame Game: The USSR’s Response to HIV/AIDS	The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response
The Black Death and its Aftermath	COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership	The Respirator and Cloth Mask
Corona in Context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic (2003)	Top Ten Origins: From Bollywood to Indywood	Top Ten Origins: Bollywood Films
A Postcard from Pakistan: Girls Education in Gilgit-Baltistan	A Postcard from New Orleans, Louisiana	A Postcard from Leith, Scotland
A Postcard from Yeongju, South Korea	A Postcard from Georgia and Azerbaijan	The National Veterans Museum and Memorial
At the Movies: Downton Abbey	A Postcard From Havana, Cuba	Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety
Chernobyl and the Cost of Lies	Top Ten Origins: Summer 2019 Must Reads	Top Ten Origins: Historical Musicals
Top Ten Origins: World War II Films	Top Ten Origins: American Workers and Strikes	At the Movies: Mary Queen of Scots
International Women's Day	Una Postal de Oaxaca, México	Top Ten Origins: Gun Regulation
A Postcard From Oaxaca, Mexico	The Nature of World War II	Top Ten Origins: Controversial SCOTUS Nominees
A Postcard From Chichén Itzá	Top Ten Origins: Zombies: The Undead Shuffle	Top Ten Origins: The Universe’s Greatest Hits
Top Ten Origins: Summer 2018 Must Reads	A Postcard from Tirana: Overcoming the Past	What’s “Natural” on the Galapagos Islands?
Top Ten Origins: Puerto Rico and the United States	Top Ten Origins: Civil Defense, Nuclear War, and Duct Tape	Best in History Online: BBC's In Our Time
Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story	Living in History: Stalingrad at 75	A Postcard from Thessaloniki, Greece

Pages

Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Stanton Foundation.

College of Arts and Sciences