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Origins at eHistory

by Department of History

Current events in historical perspective. Each issue offers an analysis of a particular current issue, political, cultural, or social, in a larger, deeper context

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Episodes

  1. America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance

  2. Justice Denied: The Killing of Trayvon Martin in Historical Perspective

  3. Viewpoint Iran: The Past and Present of the U.S.-Iran Standoff

  4. European Disunion: The Rise and Fall of a Post-War Dream?

  5. Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: America's Love Affair with the Two-Party System

  6. Two Popes and a Primate: The Changing Face of Global Christianity

  7. A New World Order? Africa and China

  8. The Human Use of Human Beings: A Brief History of Suicide Bombing

  9. Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam

  10. Should Age Matter? How 65 Came to Be Old and Old Came to Be Ill

  11. Democratizing American Higher Education: The Legacy of the Morrill Land Grant Act

  12. "Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms

  13. From Commonplace to Controversial: The Different Histories of Abortion in Europe and the United States

  14. Socialism Takes Over France, Again?

  15. From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics

  16. Russia and the Race for the Arctic

  17. Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising

  18. Humanitarian Intervention: The American Experience from William McKinley to Barack Obama

  19. Climate, Human Population and Human Survival: What the Deep Past Tells Us about the Future

  20. A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq

  21. "Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent

  22. Re-mapping American Politics: The Redistricting Revolution Fifty Years Later

  23. Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks

  24. Down and Out (Again): America’s Long Struggle with Mass Unemployment

  25. Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America

  26. Avoiding the Scourge of War: The Challenges of United Nations Peacekeeping

  27. The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking

  28. Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal

  29. WikiLeaks, and the Past and Present of American Foreign Relations

  30. 'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan

  31. Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900

  32. American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style

  33. Currency Wars, or Why You Should Care About the Global Struggle Over the Value of Money

  34. A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti

  35. Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore

  36. South America’s ‘Sleeping Giant’ Wakes: Brazil’s 2010 Election

  37. The Summer of ’10: Federal Power, Local Autonomy, and the Struggle over Immigration Policy

  38. From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?

  39. The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Policy

  40. The Other Half of the African Sky: Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe

  41. The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa

  42. Updating ‘No Child Left Behind:’ Change, or More of the Same

  43. Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again

  44. Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis

  45. Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis

  46. Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts

  47. Child Kidnapping in America

  48. 1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe

  49. Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population

  50. From Baghdad to Kabul: The Historical Roots of U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine

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Current events in historical perspective. Each issue offers an analysis of a particular current issue, political, cultural, or social, in a larger, deeper context

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Department of History

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