"Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective" connects history with today. Every month since 2007, we’ve provided historical insight on current events that matter to the United States & the world on our web site at origins.osu.edu. The history departments of Ohio State University & Miami University in Oxford produce a "History Talk" podcast each month that features interviews and segments about today’s most interesting topics— it’s a history podcast for everyone. On this channel, we also share videos based on written features from our web site.
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.”