Europe was engulfed in its first true world war, and Frederick the Great found himself at the center of the conflict. With ...

Wendell Williams takes readers with him on the first part of his journey through Eastern Europe over the Christmas holiday.

The Behaim Globe depicted a narrowed Atlantic Ocean, which, if crossed, would lead directly to Cipango (Japan) and Asia. In ...

The Balkan Wars (1912-1913) proved that the Megali Idea—the nationalist concept and goal to expand the Greek state to include ...