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Annika Culver interview with “Market Edge,” ABS-CBN News Channel, Philippines, on 1 May 2019.

So much has been said by national experts about this week’s historic meeting between the leaders of America and North Korea. But Florida State University has its own expert who has spent years studying the historic and modern dynamics of Northeast Asia and the politically fractured Korean peninsula

For some Americans, the Korean War is considered a forgotten conflict. For North Korea, the three years of fighting that killed more than 2 million between 1950 and 1953 remains a constant reminder for vigilance against what Pyongyang sees as US imperialist aggression.

Scholars distinguish traditional from modern dictatorships on the basis of their goals and tactics. Hitler and Stalin epitomize the traditional, marked by reliance on violence and efforts to impose ideologies.

When Paine arrived in Philadelphia from England in 1774, the city was thriving as America’s largest port. But the seasonal dangers of the rivers dividing the region were becoming an obstacle to the city’s continued growth. Philadelphia needed a practical connection between the rich grain of Pennsylvania’s backcountry farms and its port on the Delaware. The iron bridge was Paine’s solution.

A pharmaceutical company got an angry backlash after buying the rights to a lesser-known medication--and then increasing the price five thousand percent. Joseph Gabriel and Jeremy Greene discuss the issue with Rob Ferrett.

My book is a study of the intellectual property and the pharmaceutical industry in the nineteenth-century United States

How much power did Hitler have, really? We are approaching this question by asking how did Hitler manage dissent? Dissent occurred only after manipulations had failed, and the immediate choice was whether to use force or to make some compromise, at least for the moment.

Andrew Frank spoke about the Creek Indians and the First Seminole War, which took place in the early 19th century in the southeastern United States and Spanish controlled Florida. The war was fought in part to prevent slaves from fleeing into Florida.