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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · 1d
We LOVE spooky lake month!
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · 1d
October is #Spookylakemonth! To celebrate thirty-one days of haunted hydrology, read from geographer B. Lynn Ingram on how the water crisis in the American West threatens the region’s vital agricultural economy, signaling a very spooky future indeed.⁠

#Historymatters #Climatechange #California
The West without Water
What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow?
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · 7d
October means Oktoberfest! 🍻 Historian Paul Niebrzydowski explains why, in 1516, Dukes Wilhelm IV and Ludwig X limited the acceptable ingredients in beer to barley, hops, and water, creating the first German beer purity laws. ⁠
#Beer #Oktoberfest #Germanhistory
Keeping Beer 'Pure': The 1516 Reinheitsgebot
Prost! This year marks the 500-year anniversary of a decree that became the famed German Reinheitsgebot, or beer purity law. Originally a somewhat mundane trade regulation law, the Reinheitsgebot is t...
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · 8d
Congratulations to #Badbunny! 🥳 There are 3.4 million inhabitants of Puerto Rico, and another 4.9 million Puerto Ricans reside in other parts of the United States. Yet, many Americans remain unaware of the shared history. While we wait for the #Superbowl performance, read more scholar Amanda Lawson.
Top Ten History: Puerto Rico and the United States
In January 2018, President Donald Trump made a set of disparaging comments about Puerto Rico. They underscored just how little many Americans understand about the value and complexity of the relations...
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · 9d
Listen to Professors Sara Butler and Nicholas Breyfogle explain how medieval women resisted oppression and challenged misogyny. While the medieval church gave birth to the misogyny that hinders women’s progress in the West today, it witnessed feminist opposition.

#feminism #medievalhistory
Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for Today
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · 13d
Visitors from another planet or a trick of the eye? 🛸👽️ Historian Paul McAllister explains America's obsession with UFOs.
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The United States government was less concerned with UFOs as evidence of extraterrestrial life than with the threat they posed during the Cold War.

#UFO #Projectbluebook
The Air Force Investigation into UFOs | Origins
On December 17, 1969, the United States Air Force concluded Project Blue Book, its investigation into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). Headquartered at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, ...
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · 16d
September 15th to October 15th marks #HispanicHeritageMonth! This month, scholar Andrew Mitchel reviews the relationship between the United States, the Dominican Republic, and the game that both love.⁠

#Baseball #DominicanRepublic
The Dominican Republic and the United States: A Baseball History
Over the past century, baseball has become a truly global game.
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · 19d
Gwangju, a major city in southwestern South Korea, has been widely recognized as a center of civil resistance since May 1980, when a brutal military crackdown targeted protesting citizens. Yet Gwangju is not just a traumatic event that happened in 1980—it remains deeply embedded in the present.
Gwangju Then and Now
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · 22d
What is all happening at the zoo? As Dan Vandersommers discusses, zoos have long been much more than simply places to spend an afternoon. Looking at how zoos have changed over the last two centuries can tell us as much about the humans who visit as about the animals on display.

#History #Zoo
What's All Happening at the Zoo?
Let’s start with two stories. On Sunday, February 9, 2014, at the Copenhagen Zoo, a 2-year-old giraffe stretched out its neck toward an inviting piece of bread held between the fingers of a keeper. Ma...
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · Aug 11
The Battle of Hastings, which took place on October 14, 1066 was a pivotal moment in the invasion from across the English Channel that resulted in the conquest of Anglo-Saxon England by William, the French Duke of Normandy.

#MiddleAges
1066: The Normans Conquer England
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · Aug 6
Read more about the bombing of #Hiroshima from Craig Nelson on Origins.
History Milestone: The Atomic Bomb Drops on Hiroshima
The atomic age began between heartbeats at 8:15 am on August 6, 1945 when the Japanese city of Hiroshima was leveled by an atomic bomb. Three days later, the United States dropped a second bomb on Nag...
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · Aug 6
By the end of the war, the Allied bombing campaigns had left dozens of Japanese and German cities in ruins. The American firebombing of Tokyo caused much of the city to burn down and killed between 75,000 and 200,000 people.
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · Aug 6
Although Western Europe and the United States decried Nazi support of the bombings of civilian targets in the Spanish Civil War and Japanese attacks on Nanjing and Guangzhou less than a decade earlier, the Allies had fully embraced strategic bombings of civilians by 1945.
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · Aug 6
The situation was made worse because the Americans had not previously bombed Hiroshima with conventional weapons; despite the fact that it was a major military base and was designated to be the new capital should Tokyo fall into enemy hands.
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · Aug 6
For the people of Hiroshima, the day was one of unimaginable suffering. The blast killed 80,000 instantly. Over 100,000 additional people later succumbed to their injuries, perishing in the conflagration that consumed the city, or dying from the radiation that fell to the earth in a “black rain."
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · Aug 6
80 years ago, on August 6, 1945, the atomic age began between heartbeats at 8:15 am when the Japanese city of #Hiroshima was leveled by an atomic bomb. Three days later, the United States dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki, marking the first time humanity broke atoms in anger.

#ThisDayinHistory
History Milestone: The Atomic Bomb Drops on Hiroshima
The atomic age began between heartbeats at 8:15 am on August 6, 1945 when the Japanese city of Hiroshima was leveled by an atomic bomb. Three days later, the United States dropped a second bomb on Nag...
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · Aug 5
The War of the Pacific, which pitted Chile against the allied forces of Peru and Bolivia, had a profound, long-lasting impact on the geopolitical balance of South America. The conflict resulted in a clear victory for Chile with Bolivia and Peru losing valuable land.

#WorldHistory
The War of the Pacific (1879-1884): Chile vs. Peru & Bolivia
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · Aug 1
When the Second World War (WWII) ended in 1945 and the rest of Europe was beginning to rebuild itself, Greece entered into a second war, more vicious than that fought against the Axis powers.

#HistoryVideos
The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949
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Picturing Black History @pbhosu.bsky.social · Jul 28
The influence of writer and musician Gil Scott-Heron is widely felt. However, assessing his legacy involves figuring out just what kind of artist he was.

Read "Gil Scott-Heron: 'Closer to Langston Hughes than Huey Newton,'" by Steve Conn on Picturing Black History.

#BlackHistory #Music #History
Gil Scott-Heron: “Closer to Langston Hughes than Huey Newton” - Picturing Black History
The influence of writer and musician Gil Scott-Heron is widely felt. However, assessing his legacy involves figuring out just what kind of artist he was.
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Picturing Black History @pbhosu.bsky.social · Jul 30
Casarae Abdul-Ghani explores the influential life of Norma Elizabeth Boyd, a founding member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.

#BlackHistory
Norma Elizabeth Boyd, Racial Uplift, and the Divine Nine
The Influential Life of Norma Elizabeth Boyd, a founding member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · Jul 31
What is the “deep state” exactly? Perhaps part of the power of the phrase is precisely that it is so slippery and vague. Historian Paul Croce gives us a history of the idea and examines how it has been used by different groups for different reasons.

#History #DeepState
Deeper Than the “Deep State”: Follow the Money | Origins
During his first hundred days in office, President Donald J. Trump issued over 140 Executive Orders. His Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), originally run by business executive Elon Musk, has...
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · Jul 28
On August 22, 1485, King Richard III of England died fighting in the Battle of Bosworth Field. The victor, Henry Tudor, was promptly crowned King Henry VII.

A century later, playwright William Shakespeare memorialized the battle. Read more from Hannah Keller on Origins.

#MedievalHistory
The Battle of Bosworth Field | Origins
On August 22, 1485, King Richard III of England (r. 1483-1485) died fighting in the Battle of Bosworth Field. The victor, Henry Tudor, was promptly crowned King Henry VII (r. 1485-1509).
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · Jul 17
R. Joseph Parrott discusses the signing of the United Nations Charter on Origins.

#UnitedNations #WWII
The Signing of the United Nations Charter
A 1945 poster quoting the opening line of the preamble of the United Nations Charter. On June 26, 1945, the San Francisco Con
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Picturing Black History @pbhosu.bsky.social · Jul 16
In this exclusive interview, Michael Santiago discusses the responsibility of photographers in preserving history, the emotions behind his most powerful images, and what makes a truly great photo. He speaks to his experience of documenting the final crossing of Civil Rights icon #JohnLewis.
Michael Santiago, a Picturing Black History Interview
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Origins OSU @originsosu.bsky.social · Jul 15
Want to Hold Your Hand” by the Beatles was released in the United States on December 26, 1963, and in short order became that group’s first number-one single in the U.S.

Read more about the song's legacy from Mitchell Carter on Origins.

#Music #Beatles #History
“I Want to Hold Your Hand” | Origins
“I Want to Hold Your Hand” by the Beatles was released in the United States on December 26, 1963, and in short order became that group’s first number-one single in the U.S.
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