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A true but little known story from the Haitian Revolution. Late in the war, things were looking grim for sketchy old France, ...

The History of Prussia (16th century to the first half of the 20th century ... In 1871, following the Franco-Prussian War, Prussia established the German Empire, and King Wilhelm I of Prussia was ...

Before the modern borders were established, the area was part of various larger political entities, such as the Holy Roman Empire and later the Kingdom of Prussia. The borders were often unclear ...

Professor Grischa Vercamer is the new Heisenberg Professor at the University of Passau for the History of Eastern and Central European Cultures in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. In his ...

Viceroy Lord Irwin inaugurated India’s first Parliament building. In 1919, the Paris Peace Conference began, which would ...

India is marking its 76th Republic Day today (). This year’s celebrations are extra special as the Constitution, which came ...

at the time Prussia and Scandinavian countries”. A strong education system made Scotland central to the British Empire. We had, says Paterson, a larger population of educated people compared to ...

In the inert, anachronistic space of the sanatorium, history rushes in ... and the Habsburg Empire. In the 18th century, it was a province of Prussia, and in the century following, it became ...

Here’s what happened the last three times the U.S. tried to acquire Greenland.

Explore how climate change threatens 50 UNESCO World Heritage sites around the globe, from melting glaciers and rising sea ...

When the French revolutionaries specified in the constitution of 1791 that a day of national celebration was to be held each ...