History Talk | Origins

penguin standing on sand at a beach with a plant and ocean behind it

Early Encounters with Penguins

fire at plant in Bhopal in background people lost in the fire

Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster

a woman at a witch trial. she is wearing white and has her arms up in air with lightening bolts coming out of them. A judge, lawyer and an audience of people look on.

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

Lydia Walker

Postwar Decolonization and its Discontents

horseshoe shape made up of people

From College Towns into Knowledge Towns: On the Future of Town/Gown Relations

Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust

people with palestinian flags and people holding flags of Israel

The United States and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Historical Perspectives

a woman wearing old pilot goggles on her head and holding a bottle of Coca-Cola

Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet

British Fleet Spanish Armada of 1588

1588: the Spanish Armada Still Loses

Thomas Sankara

Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso

ship on waterway that is polluted with oil spill

Water Crisis on the Blue Planet: What Water’s Past tells us about Humanity’s Future

Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877, oil on canvas

Silent Spring Revolution, a Conversation with Douglas Brinkley

Vladimir Putin seated and surrounded by military officers

World War II Memory in Putin's Russia

President Joe Biden with other foreign leaders, sitting around a table with others looking on

How does Ideology Drive U.S. Foreign Relations?

cars on a highway

Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol

Ukrainian soldier with blue and yellow ribbon overlay

Understanding the War in Ukraine: Insights from the Recent Past, 1991—Present

seedlings

Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future

Booker T. Washington

Picturing Black History

Statue and Ukrainian Flag

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Judas kissing Jesus

The Gospel of Judas: The Rediscovery of the Earliest Gnostic Gospel

pile of syringes

The Global War on Drugs

Soviet and US Flags

Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Cold War

Buildings along a waterfront in China

China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a Rising Power

L to R - Indigenous, African American, and Jewish Peoples

Ideas of Race and Racism in History

Close-up of Indian couple's hands during wedding ceremony

Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

Flag of Israel with landscape of Israel in the background

Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II

Globe on a plate with knife and fork next to it

Diet for a Large Planet

President Biden, standing in front of a blue flag with an eagle emblem

First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: Insights from History

Earth covered in trees and water

"Pale Blue Dot": History of Our Environment

Dreamcatchers shown against the sky

Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students

Native woman with her back to the camera

Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma & Indigenous Ways of Knowing

15th century painting of Christine de Pisan, QUeen Isabeau, and 7 other women

Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for Today

A long line of migrants in India

Migration and Mobility: Yesterday and Today

A red AIDS ribbon outlined in candles

The Global History of HIV

Donald Trump and Joe Biden

Election 2020: Insights from History

Man at march holding sign that reads "Make America NATIVE Again"

Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Conversation

view looking up into treetops

Climate Change: Insights from History

Large group of suffragists on steps

One Hundred Years of Women and the Vote

Robert F Williams and Mao Zedong

China and the Black Liberation Struggle in America

A makeshift hospital in Iowa during the 1918 flu pandemic

Pandemics: Past, Present, Future

Crowd photo of protests in Hong Kong

Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Person holding sign that reads "Stop Voter Suppression"

From Poll Taxes to Partisan Gerrymandering: Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States

Andrés Manuel López Obrador in front of Mexican flag

"Juntos Haremos Historia": AMLO and Mexico's Fourth Transformation

A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan

Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday

Two women in black hijab in Yemen

Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War

Banksy mural of worker chipping star off EU flag

Brexit: Dividing the United Kingdom

Stenciled graffiti of a priest pursuing two children

Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse

Artifact from Benin

Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation

Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."

HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future

Jair Bolsonaro speaking at microphone

Brazil, Bolsonaro, and the Politics of Nostalgia

The so-called "Elgin Marbles," on display in the British Museum

Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum

IRA gunmen in Northern Ireland

From the Cold War to the War on Terror

Mushroom cloud over the Bikini Atoll

Nuclear Tensions, Nuclear Weapons, and a Long History of Nuclear War

National Memorial for Peace and Justice exhibit, Montgomery AL

Confederates and Lynching in American Public Memory

Protesters with signs in support of immigrants: "We are all here thanks to immigrants", "If you don't want immigrants, stop destabilizing their countries"; "Defend DACA"

Honduras, TPS, and U.S. Policy

People holding signs: "More Mental Health Care + Less Jail Time" and "Support Mental Health - It's the Right Thing to Do"

Mental Health and American Society

Free speech march at Ohio State University in the mid-20th century

Politics and Protest on College Campuses

Women at the Women's March in DC with signs: "Can't Believe We STILL Have to Protest", "Keep your Hands and Laws Off my Body", "RAPE CULTURE" with a line through it

The Long History of #MeToo

Royal Irish Rifles in foxhole at Battle of the Somme, 1916

Legacies of the Great War

Colin Kaepernick and teammates kneeling

The Long View of Sports Protests

Lenin waving flag in front of crowd of workers and soldiers

From Romanovs to Reds: Russia's Revolutions at 100

A rhino standing on the beach

The Sixth Extinction and Our Unraveling World

Border Fence/Wall

Shifting Borders: The Many Sides of U.S.-Mexican Relations

A Church in Novgorod Russia

Russia and the World

A map of the US night sky, showing points of population density

Fault Lines: The Urban-Rural Divide in America

Marchers for the Equal Rights Amount, holding banner that reads "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"

The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now

Tiger

Caged: Humans and Animals at the Zoo

Person on horseback faces line of police and military vehicles

Native Sovereignty and the Dakota Access Pipeline

Haze obscuring image of rooftops in China

The Greening of China?

Tanks and soldiers in parade in Pyongyang

North Korea: The Myth of a Hermit Kingdom

Voting booths

America's Post-Election Political Landscape

Collage: On the left, a group of men emptying liquor bottles during Prohibition. On the right, a field of marijuana plants

Hooked: Drugs, Prohibition, and American Cities

Graffiti on wall: "Broken Promises"

Jefferson Cowie on Deindustrialization, Trade, and the 2016 Presidential Election

Sheikha Mozah

Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa

Eight women in US politics

Women in American Politics

A group of children in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

The World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001

The War on Terror

European Union flag

The EU: Past, Present, and Future

Collapsed bridge

America's Infrastructure Challenge

Top view of engineer at desk with laptop, hardhat, and blueprints

Origins interviews the American Society of Civil Engineers

A group of men and women. The women hold signs that say "My Body, My Choice"

Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice

Top view of person serving themself a rice dish from a table of food

Food for Thought: Diet in History

Glacial ice on Lake Baikal

Climate Change and Human Life

A crowd of Syrian refugees in the Vienna airport

Road to Europe: The 2015 Migration Crisis

BJP rally in India

The Politics of India

Diocletian's Camp in Palmyra

Understanding the Middle East

Cartoon from Puck: The Bosses of the Senate

Buying American Elections?

French demonstrators with purple signs that read "ras le viol"

Violence Against Women

Turkish soldiers standing over skeletal remains during Armenian Genocide

Armenians, Turks, and the Genocide Question

Three Afghan police trainees, sitting on ground with guns

Afghanistan: Past and Prospects

DC Police Car in the snow

A Long View of Policing in America

Marker: "90 Miles to Cuba. Southernmost Point, Continental USA. Key West, FL"

Rethinking Cuba Libre

Pope Francis holding Bible

The People's Pope and the Changing Face of Catholicism

Black women marching with signs supporting integration

Race in the Classroom: Teaching Civil Rights

The Lorraine Motel

Putting Race on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum

Monument with figures dressed as pop culture figures like Superman, Santa, and Ronald McDonald

1989: The Year That Changed It All

Early OSU football game

4th and Goal? The Past of the American University and the Future of the NCAA

Photo from 1890 of the first OSU football team

Taylor Branch on the Crisis of College Sports

Painting of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Memories of the Great War

Marchers for LGBTQ rights

The Debate Over Same-Sex Marriage and LGBTQ Rights

Shells of burnt-out busses after a suicide bombing

The Terrors of Suicide Bombing

Team photo of a soccer team

The Politics of International Sport

Crowds of people waving Ukrainian flags

The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part II

Crowds of people in Kyiv, Ukraine

The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part I

Rodin's "The Thinker"

Reaching Beyond the Ivory Tower

Nanci Pelosi standing at a podium with many people behind and beside her

The Contentious ACA

Tank in Syria

The Syrian Civil War: Alawites, Women's Rights, and the Arab Spring

The front of the National Security Administration in Fort Meade, MD

America’s Big Brother

Pro-Choice demonstrators holding signs saying "Support Legal Abortion"

The Politics of Abortion in Europe and America

Communards with flags

The Socialist Legacy in France

The aurora borealis over the Arctic

Climate Change, Russia, and the Race for the Arctic

Protesters during day 14 of Occupy Wall Street

"Class Warfare" in American History

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