Last week we've looked at the prehistory of the territories that would eventually be united in the state of Prussia and the ...
Last week we looked at the origins of House Hohenzollern and the Thirty Years’ War that brought Brandenburg-Prussia close to ...
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 ...
On his way back from self-imposed exile in Paris, in 1844, Heinrich Heine caught a first glimpse of Prussian soldiers in Aachen, a city in the far west corner of Germany: With which they used to be ...
Many states have been conquered, partitioned, occupied, "ended" and even destroyed. Prussia is unique in that it was formally abolished by decree of the British, American, French and Soviet victors in ...