Prussia played a crucial role in the history of Europe, shaping its political, military, and cultural landscape for centuries ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Throughout history, small states have come out of nowhere, and rapidly become great powers. This was the ...

In the first few months of his second term, President Donald Trump has raised concerns among commentators and academics that the U.S. could face a constitutional crisis. Trump has issued numerous ...

Four queens, four famous names in Prussian history: Luise, Augusta, \"Vicky\" and Auguste Viktoria. Who were they? Glamorous, rebellious, virtuous, conservative or even scheming? In a panorama ...

The battle for East Prussia — Germany’s “bowels of iron and heart of steel” — had begun. So far, history was repeating itself. Thirty years before, the Russians had driven into the bleak ...