Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.

The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

European imperialist interests led a young noble couple to a new land: the deeply divided, war-torn, and impoverished country ...

Vienna is Wagner’s city—his visionary structures dot the streets like clues to a future that never quite arrived. Visit his ...

Archduke Alexander of Austria and Natacha Roumiantzoff-Pachkevitch have reportedly split less than two years after they got ...

Archaeologists uncovered hidden inscriptions and graffiti left by medieval pilgrims on the walls of the Cenacle, the site of ...

Before his death in 2020, the conservative historian Paul Schroeder turned his attention to American empire. A lifetime spent ...

From its centuries-old vineyards to its fairytale castles, Central Bohemia offers big attractions beyond the big city.

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I was stiffed on my last few stories. The owner said high interest rates killed ... Spain’s relatives, the once great, wealthy Habsburg empire, had their own problems. In the 19th century it went ...

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Other monarchs in exile had a very bad time of things – the last sultan was cheated by his landlady, the last Habsburg died in impoverished despair in Madeira – but Kaiser Wilhelm arrived in Holland ...