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… welcomed the New Year by lining up at licensed retailers to buy bags of (heavily taxed) artisanal marijuana, with … push toward legalization, voters seem to have found a way around the twentieth-century quest for prohibition—a … Richmond P. Hobson, who had been the Anti-Saloon League’s best-paid public speaker, began warning of a dire threat …

… Not any funny movie, but “The Mouse That Roared.” That 1959 comedy was based on the premise that by the late 1950s both … of the war’s outcome. That’s what Bush should seek now. The best American policy for Afghanistan, and one that might … Fenwick, a tiny fictional country, decides that the best way for it to revive its flailing economy is to go to war …

… “Socialism!” That’s the alarm many conservative commentators and legislators are sounding about the latest … joined an international effort to help troubled banks by buying stock in them. Their hope is that the government’s … of directors. But government-appointed directors were always a small minority. They got outvoted or ignored; one …

… His friends admired him for his intelligence, honesty, and commitment to virtue, but thought that maybe a little … to remedy their unfortunate bachelor condition in quite the way he did. A man of means and influence, in 1769 Day … some inevitably slipped through the cracks. Perhaps the best illustration of this is the ease with which Day waltzed …

… dotted with reminders of this past, but the residents welcome visitors with true Albanian hospitality and intend to show … were demolished at Skanderbeg Square (city center) to make way for government buildings, and statues of Lenin and Hoxha … Former Soviet Union …

… who decided to accept these accusations and move the trials forward. Historians have long wondered why the judges … Speaker's Note: Matt Goldish would like to add a more complete response to one of the questions asked him after … function at the bottom of your screen on zoom. We'll do our best to answer as many questions as we can. We received …

… and cultural traditions remain vibrant, attracting visitors in all four seasons. Sobaek Mountain. Sobaek … lantern, a wood plaque reads “Muryangsujeon (無量壽殿)” and welcomes all comers (right). The founder of the Buseoksa … (Baekundong takes its name from the clouds that always flow around the valley.) During the building of the …

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone … never, they'll never meet, but they'll they know, they're always there. And that police forces have really been a modern … I feel like most for most of the 20th century, which I know best, there's been a consensus that police are necessary …

… on the Paradise Papers, a cache of documents detailing the way corporations hide profits through tax havens and … mostly through the system of colonial companies. The best known was the Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK, … in the guise of shady agreements used to satisfy allies or buy allegiances. To the surprise of many, L-D. Kabila’s son, …

… the Spanish-speaking gunner; and Grady “Coon-Ass” Travis, a bestial mechanic with a southern drawl. Their fifth … of the 2nd Armored Division, the protagonists fight their way through a devastated Germany. The first major combat sequence takes place in an open field, as Collier and …

… Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of plutonium, visited Richland, Washington, and the adjacent Hanford … and bigger but this meant that new projects often were underway before their engineering was completed. The shadow of … States. For nuclear power, the 1970s in fact were the best of times. There were 20 operating nuclear plants in …

… religious aura of rivers enhanced the status of riverine communities” (31). Rivers were ascribed human qualities and … and connections across the whole Roman empire, he is always mindful of the ways in which the history of rivers also … “control over natural forces” and use of “this power to bestow benefits” on their citizens to be core activities of …

… the Second World War. Glassheim notes that with the end of combat in Europe in 1945, the borderlands of Czechoslovakia … thinking of the Sudetenland as a borderland gives us a new way of looking at this fraught piece of geography. For … in Czechoslovakia. Most, “the town that moved,” best instantiates the multiple arguments about borderlands, …

… of custody courts and state authorities that took children away from lesbian and gay parents in the 1970s and 1980s, as … lose their parental rights. In this era, when “father knew best” and June Cleaver stayed at home, the dominant image in … from their ex-spouses in order to keep their children or visitation rights. There were still dangers involved in …

… A group of Major Leaguers including Babe Ruth, for example, visited countries like Japan in 1934 not just to spread the … influences back from the North. Baseball offered just one way for elites in the Spanish Caribbean to mimic U.S. … could not afford the exorbitant salaries offered to the best players available. Though they escaped American …

… the worst rating on the International Nuclear Events scale, best estimates place the radiation release at 10% of that at … victory—high quality coal had to be imported all the way from the east coast of the United States. In addition to … question is whether the Japanese people are still going to buy it. …

… As China completes its takeover of Hong Kong, it should be remembered … Soon smugglers discovered they could make fortunes by buying Rolex watches and other contraband items in Tibet to … import and exchange restrictions or simply want to have a way of laundering money and stashing it in foreign bank …

… to experience hyperinflation . Despite the government’s best efforts to continue payments, a crippling debt default … Maduro. Protestors demonstrating while people seeking to buy basic goods in short supply line up outside a store in … for the crises of the 1980s and 1990s and paved the way for the allure of populism and the explicit involvement …

… in Sicily—the island near Italy's toe that Anglo-American forces had invaded in early July—taking in the scene below. … an astonishing armada of nearly 3,000 ships. “There is no way of conveying the enormous size of that fleet,” wrote … in continents far removed from the conflict because of the compelling demand that war creates for forest and …

… (Madras) in India. Madras was born in 1636, when East India Company official Francis Day signed a treaty with the Nayaka … he chose to settle the EIC where he could be near her and visit her frequently. Nearly four centuries later, the EIC … the Armenian Church, established in 1712 by traders all the way from Armenia. Closer to Egmore Station is a more …

… half a million, which was roughly 0.5% of all votes cast. For the first time in modern U.S. history, the candidate who won the popular vote had been defeated. In a way, the entire controversy stemmed from what sociologist … call “the law of unintended consequences.” That phrase has come to be understood as a warning that intervention in a …

… Trump administration has taken a hardline on immigration. News from the U.S. border that asylum seekers are being turned away, that parents are being separated from their children, and the termination of Temporary Protected Status for 57,000 Hondurans currently living in the U.S. has drawn …

… The Crimea that most people have come to know is a peninsula occupied by Russian forces, … local peoples the Tauri when he came to the region to visit Greek colonies. Greeks had settled at the magnificent … one of Russia's greatest painters, and one of the world's best at seascapes. The Battle of Sinop (Russian and Turkish …