Origins OSU

"Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective" connects history with today. Every month since 2007 on our web site at origins.osu.edu, we’ve provided historical insight on current events that matter to the United States & the world. In 2016 we launched this channel to share videos based on written features from our web site as well as webinars. Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective is a collaboration between the history departments of Ohio State University in Columbus and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. 

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.”