Origins at eHistory

75 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 10 years ago - ★★★ - 4 ratings

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

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

December 01, 2013 12:00 - 27 minutes

Justice Denied: The Killing of Trayvon Martin in Historical Perspective

November 01, 2013 12:00 - 23 minutes

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

October 01, 2013 12:00 - 25 minutes

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

September 01, 2013 12:00 - 34 minutes

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

July 01, 2013 12:00 - 38 minutes

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

June 01, 2013 12:00 - 28 minutes

A New World Order? Africa and China

May 01, 2013 12:00

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

April 01, 2013 12:00 - 24 minutes

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

March 01, 2013 12:00 - 26 minutes

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

February 01, 2013 12:00 - 23 minutes

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

January 01, 2013 12:00 - 22 minutes

"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms

December 01, 2012 12:00 - 25 minutes

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

November 01, 2012 12:00 - 27 minutes

Socialism Takes Over France, Again?

October 01, 2012 12:00 - 23 minutes

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

September 01, 2012 12:00 - 23 minutes

Russia and the Race for the Arctic

August 01, 2012 12:00 - 32 minutes

Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising

July 01, 2012 12:00 - 26 minutes

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

June 01, 2012 12:00 - 25 minutes

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

May 01, 2012 12:00 - 24 minutes

A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq

April 01, 2012 12:00 - 30 minutes

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

March 01, 2012 12:00 - 23 minutes

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

February 01, 2012 12:00 - 25 minutes

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

January 01, 2012 12:00 - 28 minutes

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

December 01, 2011 12:00 - 24 minutes

Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America

November 01, 2011 12:00 - 25 minutes

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

October 01, 2011 12:00 - 29 minutes

The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking

September 01, 2011 12:00 - 39 minutes

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

August 01, 2011 12:00 - 37 minutes

WikiLeaks, and the Past and Present of American Foreign Relations

July 01, 2011 12:00 - 27 minutes

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

June 01, 2011 12:00 - 36 minutes

Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900

May 01, 2011 12:00 - 28 minutes

American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style

April 01, 2011 12:00 - 33 minutes

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

March 01, 2011 12:00 - 29 minutes

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

February 01, 2011 12:00 - 32 minutes

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

January 01, 2011 12:00 - 31 minutes

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

December 01, 2010 12:00 - 27 minutes

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

November 01, 2010 12:00 - 34 minutes

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

October 01, 2010 12:00 - 26 minutes

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

September 01, 2010 12:00 - 27 minutes

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

August 01, 2010 12:00 - 28 minutes

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

July 01, 2010 12:00 - 33 minutes

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

June 01, 2010 12:00 - 30 minutes

Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again

May 01, 2010 12:00 - 28 minutes

Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis

April 01, 2010 12:00 - 40 minutes

Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis

March 01, 2010 12:00 - 24 minutes

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

February 01, 2010 12:00 - 29 minutes

Child Kidnapping in America

January 01, 2010 12:00 - 22 minutes

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

December 01, 2009 12:00 - 25 minutes

Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population

November 01, 2009 12:00 - 26 minutes

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

October 01, 2009 12:00 - 30 minutes

Books

Modern Latin America

1 Episode

The Nuclear Age

1 Episode