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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

Origins: Current Events In Historical Perspective presents short audio discussions of the historical context of some of today's most important issues. Check out origins.osu.edu for the written versions of these podcasts and more!

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144 episodes

  1. WHO and the End of Smallpox 10:33
  2. The Investiture Controversy 6:49
  3. The Treaty of Lausanne and the End of the Ottoman Empire 11:09
  4. The Story of Alcoholics Anonymous 8:10
  5. The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival 7:49
  6. Jamaican Independence 9:15
  7. The Greco-Turkish War 7:42
  8. Waitangi Day: The Complicated Story 7:49
  9. The 14th Amendment 8:56
  10. The Duel Between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton 6:35
  11. Who was Typhoid Mary? 7:18
  12. The Battle of Bosworth Field 7:41
  13. The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion 13:10
  14. President James Garfield's Assassination 7:13
  15. The Discovery of Pluto 9:24
  16. Ten Iconic World Series 14:41
  17. Gwangju Then and Now 7:07
  18. Project Blue Book: America's Obsession with UFOs 9:21
  19. 1066: The Normans Conquer England 5:59
  20. War of the Pacific, 1879-1884: Chile vs. Peru and Bolivia 9:12
  21. The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster 8:40
  22. The Legacy of the Magna Carta 5:00
  23. The Birth of Peronism 8:57
  24. Top Ten Popes Before 1500 12:02
  25. Albert Hofmann and the Discovery of LSD 6:46
  26. Justice for the Rwandan Genocide 6:54
  27. The Great Fire of Rome 9:04
  28. The Tunguska Mystery Explosion 8:57
  29. 10 Great World War II Films 16:42
  30. Haile Selassie I and an Independent Ethiopia 6:46
  31. Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon 7:47
  32. The Berlin Airlift 6:36
  33. The Founding of the People's Republic of China 8:11
  34. The Story of Poinsettia Day and U.S.-Mexico Relations 6:46
  35. Our Top Ten Historical Musicals 20:59
  36. Congolese Rumba: Soundtrack to African Political Struggle 11:05
  37. The Very Modern Alice in Wonderland 4:21
  38. Solar Eclipses in American History 9:22
  39. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution 9:23
  40. The Battle for Manila 11:06
  41. The Historical Dominance of the Electric Car 6:42
  42. SpaghettiOs and the Age of Processed Foods 7:47
  43. Operation Barbarossa 8:21
  44. Mariner 9: Our 1st Steps to Mars 5:43
  45. The 1st Modern Olympic Games, Athens 1896 8:51
  46. The Marshall Plan 8:16
  47. The Ludlow Massacre: Fighting for Workers’ Rights, 1914 6:36
  48. History's Top Spies 14:58
  49. Making Sense of South Korean Politics 8:03
  50. Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation 9:10