Milestones | Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

Connecting History

Milestones

Hot off the Press

History Talk

Milestones

New histories on anniversaries of past events, large and small

The Death of Franco	Argentina’s Day of Loyalty and the Birth of Peronism	Süleyman the Magnificent
The Nineteenth Amendment	Prologued Podcast celebrating the 19th Amendment Centennial	Srebrenica and its Memory
The Signing of the United Nations Charter	May 2020: Kent State after Fifty Years	April 2020: “No News Day” at the BBC
March 2020: The Boston Massacre	February 2020: The Treaty of Waitangi	January 2020: “No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War
December 2019: The Provisional Irish Republican Army	The Versailles Treaty Fight	October 2019: The Rumble in the Jungle
Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Earth	The Liberation of Paris	Fly Me to the Moon
The Hamilton-Burr Duel	The Tour de France and the Yellow Jersey	Stonewall and the Unfinished Gay Revolution
May 2019: The Greco-Turkish War	April 2019: The Amritsar Massacre	March 2019: Mendeleev's Periodic Table
February 2019: France at the Barricades, 1934	January 2019: A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly	December 2018: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
November 11, 1918: The End of World War I?	The 1918 Flu Pandemic	October 2018: Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast
Genocide and Justice in Rwanda	August 2018: The 1998 East African Embassy Bombings	The Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment
The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow	May 2018: Out the Window: Religion, Politics, and a Defenestration in Prague	The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
March 2018: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	February 2018: 150 Years Since the Birth of W. E. B. Du Bois	January 2018: The Execution of Louis XVI
December 2017: India-Pakistan Partition	November 2017: The October Revolution in Russia	October 2017: Martin Luther and the Reformation
September 2017: The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love	August 2017: Stalingrad at 75, the Turning Point of World War II in Europe	July 2017: Canada 150: Coming Home
June 2017: The Long Shadow of the June 1967 War	The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion: “No Justice, No Peace”	April 2017: The Bataan Death March
March 2017: The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace	February 2017: Russia’s February Revolution and the Precarious Politics of Nostalgia	January 2017: From the Transatlantic Telephone to the iPhone
December 2016: Pearl Harbor	November 2016: Mariner 9: Opening The Martian Frontier	Remembering '56: The Hungarian Revolution
October 2016: The Norman Conquest of England, 1066	September 2016: Star Trek	"Mao's Last Revolution": China's Cultural Transformation
July 2016: Lawrence Halprin and Two Modern Spaces	The Assassination of President Garfield	The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments
Emperor Haile Selassie I Returns Triumphant to Ethiopia	April 2016: Eating at You: Food and Chernobyl	April 2016: Keeping Beer “Pure”: The 1516 Reinheitsgebot
April 2016: Kindred Spirits: Shakespeare and Cervantes in Life and Death	March 2016: The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949	February 2016: 400 Years Ago the Catholic Church Prohibited Copernicanism

Pages

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

College of Arts and Sciences