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… since television audiences bid adieu to the Crawley family and their servants, but now the characters of Downton Abbey … have returned: the chic 1920s style, the majestic grandeur of the country estate, and, of course, incisive quips … heart.” Mounted police clear demonstrators from a street in southeast London during the General Strike of 1926. Overall …

… (today, materials from 2100 courses are free to anyone), and MITx and edX were the next logical step in this … for education to be an example of federal overreach. Many southern states, in particular, rejected this; Clement Clay … Act was passed only in 1862, during the Civil War, after Southern legislators had left Washington. Morrill proposed …

… of the military, from providing security for diplomats and heads of state (including Afghanistan’s president, Hamid … force for good, as long as they remain on the job. When the South African firm Executive Outcomes was hired by the government …

… important new biographical details to the traditional commander-in-chief profile. After having 43 presidents cut from … half the nation’s population. Still, that’s far more than African Americans can claim. There have been only three … breakthrough. Edwards would be the first president born in South Carolina, the birthplace of secession. The early …

… Historians have widely accepted the value of motion pictures and literature as ways of delving into the past. Video … Hearts weaves a narrative of four primary protagonists: an African American soldier, a Belgian nurse, a German soldier, … masters and are eventually sold into bondage in the Deep South. But at times Freedom is cringe worthy. Some of the …

… for which the  first vaccine was developed (in 1796); and it was a disease that was responsible for as many as 300 … and financial aspects of the program in western and central Africa. He also appointed Henderson, then head of the … in the world. Maalin was a hospital cook in Merca, in southern  Somalia , who was also a part-time vaccinator, …

… to become an independent nation. While many inside Kosovo and out will rejoice at its liberation from Serbia, there … for independence in secessionist regions such as Georgia’s South Ossetia and Sudan’s Darfur. What’s needed is an agreed … any new international agreement governing secession. Unlike South Ossetia or Darfur, Kosovo passes on all three counts. …

… his administration believed, to keep the capitalist system and traditional American values secure. Now, he said, those … within each nation. Countries such as Mexico, Brazil and South Africa are often touted as economic success stories, even … U.S. Laws and Legislation …

… Illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1887). On July 11, 1804, … War , dueling became another distinction between North and South. Northern states began to outlaw the practice while it remained an important part of Southern culture. Southern congressmen used the threat of …

… or extricate themselves from an increasingly expensive and unpopular war. Meanwhile, on the home front, partisan … to war. Polk sanctioned war to annex California and the Southwest, believing American exceptionalism would make this … the splits between Whig and Democrat and North and South that triggered America's slide into civil war in the …

… David Edmunds' "Something Useful for a Change: Historians and Modern Tribal Communities" Wednesday, March 26 at The  … , a nation aboriginal to the Wabash River valley in the southern Great Lakes, has a strong claim to a broad swath of … signed between 1795 and 1840, Edmunds shows that much of southeastern Illinois is still legally myaamionki—Miami …

… Israeli blockade of the area. The ships ignored Israel's demands to inspect the cargo they carried, and Israeli navy … the 1973-2010 phase of the conflict has sprawled north and south, from Lebanon to the Gaza Strip, and involved an array … launch dozens of missile attacks against towns in Israel's southern Negev region. In retaliation, Israel launched its …

… some core Republican principles, including free trade and fiscal responsibility. Environmental Protection Agency … plants. Detergent suds overflow from aeration tanks at the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant in Cuyahoga Heights, … it made no ecological sense. The Colorado River irrigates Southern California’s agricultural Imperial Valley in 2007 ( …

… there really was a "first" American Thanksgiving. But a handful of documents give us a hint at what might have been … in Uganda in 1999, has now spread across Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, and the Middle East. Scientists … The CGIAR gene banks are located primarily in the global South but their funding and guidance comes primarily from …

… voters in the United Kingdom stunned the British political and media establishment—and the entire world—by voting to leave the European Union. … however, the final outcome of Brexit remains uncertain. And issues that affect the lives of millions hang in the … it possible to abolish the border between the North and the South and to create a situation where Northern Ireland could …

… H. W. Brand's new book The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, … who tried to tread a fine line by maintaining the rights of southern whites to own slaves while continuing to appeal to … Arguably this polarization led directly to the secession of southern states following Lincoln’s election as president. …

… The roots of the WHO can be traced back to the 19th century and the first European International Sanitary Conference in … ideally with the support of the WHO. Nevertheless, the  African  regional office of the WHO was the slowest to … through public-private partnerships. Her successor, the South Korean physician Jong-wook Lee, continued to call on …

… 1920 ratification, women's suffrage was now the law of the land. Theoretically all women should have been able to vote and that massive organizing power that brought the 19th … that many women in the US were still barred from voting and that what is, and is not, a "women's issue" varied …

… idea of the "modern" War on Drugs waged by Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and 1980s.  As we will see, the development of the US drug war was deeply informed by experiences abroad...and to understand why the War on Drugs drags on, we have to …

… lives of the "greatest generation" in two. On the one hand, American men were upset at Friedan's suggestion that … the experiences of working class women of any race, and African American women of any class. At the beginning of her … by dismissing the sixty-four percent of middle class African American women workers, "Friedan missed the …