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Revisit the Obamas' History in Chicago As the Obama Presidential Center Opens
Take a look back on why the Obama Presidential Center is even in Chicago's Jackson Park neighborhood as it opens a decade after the city was selected as its home.
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Recipes from America's Test Kitchen for Best Roast Chicken with Root Vegetables and Tuscan-style Roast Pork with Garlic and Rosemary.
During the Civil War, many freed slaves moved to Chicago, swelling the black population from around 600 at the beginning of the decade to 3,691 in 1870. A black professional class began to emerge while new churches and communities were built.
Numerous suitors are competing for Victoria's attention, while various people at court-her uncles, Sir John, her mother-try to influence her towards one or another in order to gain more power. Victoria's relationship with Melbourne deepens and becomes more complex.
Following Lincoln's visit to Mansion House, the hospital is full of new intrigue. The staff work to save Bullen while Frank works to hide evidence of his involvement in an assassination attempt-and that evidence includes the steward.
When Mercy Street returns Sunday, January 22 at 7:00 pm, several new characters will arrive at Mansion House. A former slave turned activist, a self-assured detective, a dashing French anatomy artist, and a rigid army officer all help to shake things up.
Robert Falls, artistic director of the Goodman Theatre, and actor David Duchovny join Mark Bazer on The Interview Show. Find out Mark's aspirations for the show and what guests he's most excited about this season.
If you've developed a hankering for royal delicacies while watching Victoria, try this recipe from The Great British Baking Show for Mini Victoria Sponge Cakes.
The new series Secrets of the Six Wives explores the lives of Henry VIII's spouses. How do the actresses compare with the real women they portray? And do the people portraying the same figures on Wolf Hall hold up?
In advance of the premiere of the second season of PBS's original Civil War drama Mercy Street and of the airing of a documentary about Lincoln's assassination, revisit the story of a man who built a working replica of the funeral train that carried Lincoln's body from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois.
This finale is intense, and entirely unprecedented and unexpected. It provides a moral summation of the entire show, and everything that came before can be fitted in, both plotwise and in terms of the message.
No one believes the 18-year-old Victoria can be Queen without help: not the bewhiskered statesmen of Parliament nor her mother and her friends. Only Lord Melbourne supports Victoria's independence. And she's going to fight for it.
Photos from the finale of Sherlock season 4 reveal nothing, but "The Final Problem" is sure to be an explosive episode.
Get a taste of the seventeenth season with recipes for Sticky Buns, Cast Iron Steak, Red Lentil Soup, and Korean Fried Chicken Wings.
Are you the fresh-faced "A Study in Pink," or the sexy "Scandal in Belgravia?" Do you seek secret agent thrills like "The Six Thatchers" or do you prefer cheery conversation like "The Sign of Three?"
It’s all in the title, folks. Don’t ever trust anything Sherlock does or says. The latest episode of Sherlock may as well be a soap opera, with its crazy media star, a cocaine habit, an estranged evil sibling, a ghost of a deceased character, and a near-suicide.
