Did Frederick William of Brandenburg found Prussia? Who really introduced the potato? A new biography of "the Great Elector" takes a deeper look at the life of the famous member of German royalty and ...

On Wednesday, November 13, Molly Taylor-Poleskey, Harvard's Map Librarian, will visit UMass Lowell to give a lecture related to her recently published book: "The Great Elector's Table: The Politics of ...

Monarchy is a hit-and-miss affair. Kings and queens can be good, bad, mad or indifferent. Most wouldn’t make the grade in a competitive democratic system or make their mark in the modern world.

Among the objects now being transferred to a charitable organisation is Lucas Cranach the Elder’s portrait of Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg Wikimedia Commons The German government and the states of ...

Drawings by young Prince Wilhelm between ages of six and 14 reveal early fascination with the sea which would later prompt naval arms race with Britain Kaiser Wilhelm, his old tutor. The drawings were ...

‘As gravity bends light, so power bends time,’ Christopher Clark writes. The ‘temporal turn’, which has recently become fashionable among historians, looks at the interplay between an individual’s ...

Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, the son of the last German Kaiser, who abdicated in 1918, naively hoped that Adolf Hitler would reinstate the monarchy and wrote him flattering letters. The prince was ...