Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

Presenting Picturing Black History, a collaborative project between @OriginsOSU and @GettyImages. View photos from the archive paired with expert history analysis to learn more about Black American stories & history: picturingblackhistory.org @ASCatOSU @OhioState

On February 25, 1975, one day before the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviours’ Day convention, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, died. Read more from Mark J. Cox on #PicturingBlackHistory. picturingblackhistory.org/the-imam-of-am…

34 years ago today, the fall of the Berlin Wall triggered a wave of jubilation, as East Berliners were able to travel to West Berlin for the first time since the Wall was constructed in 1961. ⁠ Read more from historian John Johnson on Origins.⁠ tinyurl.com/555uutcd

In “Marching Mothers,” Jessica Viñas-Nelson explains how neither wind nor rain could stop a band of Black Ohio mothers from securing the education their children deserved. picturingblackhistory.org/marching-mothe…

On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th American President. On Origins, Douglas Egerton explains how Lincoln’s refusal to budge on his party’s opposition to slavery led to the secession of South Carolina and other pro-slavery states. origins.osu.edu/history-news/e…

In February, 1963, Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique was published. Professor Susan Hartmann explains how Friedan’s book encouraged women to break free of “the feminine mystique” that women’s fulfillment was found in their dedication as housewives. origins.osu.edu/read/feminine-…

In this podcast, acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore explores the American South’s impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change. origins.osu.edu/listen/history…

Historian Alex Lichtenstein examines how photographer Ben Shahn captured the lives of Black sharecropper families in Little Rock, Arkansas one Sunday in 1935 on Picturing Black History. picturingblackhistory.org/a-sharecropper…

Sudan has been at war for over six months now. Historian Kim Searcy contextualizes these events through the long legacy of colonialism in Sudan. He argues that colonial rule created rifts in Sudanese society that persist to this day. origins.osu.edu/article/sudan-…

New video! In 1969 the Provisional IRA was formed. Learn about its history via "The Provisional Irish Republican Army," written by Jeffrey W. Lewis & produced by @OriginsOSU . youtu.be/sfil5VGg6f4

Historian M. M. Silver outlines the contours of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict across the last one hundred years. He reminds us that if the conflicts are of long-standing, the solutions have also been discussed for decades as well. origins.osu.edu/article/gaza-j…

Disco had the power to alleviate some of the pain that came with being queer and trans in the 1970s. It provided the soundtrack to a dance that wholly embraced the bodies of those at the margins, even if momentarily. picturingblackhistory.org/love-is-the-me…

Fifty years ago, in December 1969, the Provisional IRA was born. From modest beginnings, the Provisionals became the most important and dangerous separatist paramilitary group during the thirty-year conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles. origins.osu.edu/watch/provisio…

It is past time that we all find ways for anyone and everyone in our orbits help to support meaningful public history. In that light, I am honored and so delighted that Ohio State @mershoncenter and @OriginsOSU @osuhistorydept are sponsors of the new and improved @madebyhistory

Shannon Gonzales-Miller, PhD, shares her dissertation research project which considers how prevailing, monolithic descriptions of Native students influences the classroom experiences of non-Reservation Native students. tinyurl.com/mv4s89nm

Geographer Deondre Smiles (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe) invites us to reexamine the stories Americans tell themselves from a Native point of view. At stake is a full understanding of our history but. tinyurl.com/56vhu7hu

Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Listen to Ohio State University experts Melissa Beard Jacob, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Daniel Rivers discuss Indigenous Peoples' Day and the history of Indigenous People on Origins’ History Talk. origins.osu.edu/historytalk/in…

The 1887 passage of the Dawes Act upended the Native American’s system of communal land ownership and, in doing so, struck a historic blow at Native Americans’ political rights, economic sufficiency, and cultural heritage. Read more from John Bickers. tinyurl.com/2p9kyxh9

The United States has pressed Belgrade to pull back from military action as the Serbian military positions itself near the Kosovo border. On Origins, Historians Edin Hajdarpašič and Emil Kerenji explore the roots of the conflicts that led to this moment tinyurl.com/5bhb9cyh.

The Unification Council of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko sits on the center left next to representatives of the three #Ukrainian Orthodox Churches, 2018. origins.osu.edu/read/religious…

The Archdiocese of Baltimore just filed for bankruptcy before anticipated abuse lawsuits. History Talk podcast hosts Lauren Henry and Eric Michael Rhodes speak with two experts on the Church to discuss how such scandals reflect the history of the Church. tinyurl.com/3f9j6jpv