In this video I briefly discuss the colonization history of the territories that would eventually constitute the Kingdom of ...

When studying European history, the various German monarchies come up a lot. They were figuratively and literally in the ...

Of all the statelets of early modern Europe, most are now remembered only by specialists. Few of us could think of much to say about places such as Hanover, Lombardy or Silesia. There is one exception ...

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 ...