The Habsburg Jaw was more than just a genetic quirk. It shaped a dynasty’s legacy. Learn the history behind Europe’s most ...

Europe is known for its rich and sometimes dark history, and to experience its macabre side, Rick Steves suggests visiting ...

Known as the “Golden City of 100 Spires,” Prague boasts a fairytale medieval Old Town, historic churches and synagogues, and ...

From Habsburg Spain to Trump’s America, there’s no escaping the consequences of spending more on interest payments than on ...

Today’s updates to the cartographic world view respond to treaties and armistices, but most importantly, they represent ...

Historian Niall Ferguson claims that the United States could be headed to the same ruin of every previous advanced ...

"I want young people to see themselves as worthy of being immortalized in art—a recognition that transcends time," Ballon ...

I don’t often think about Holy Roman Emperors while on the ski slopes. But as I passed a humming Alpine mountain restaurant ...

In Luke Stegemann’s perceptive “new biography” of the kaleidoscopic capital of Spain, he chides Hemingway for possibly being ...

Frøya in Norway and Schönbrunn Palace in Austria have won the best European filming locations of the year awards at the ...

As the Trump administration reimagines the United States' posture in the three-year-old Russia-Ukraine war, the scholarship ...

The major cities of Central Europe built along the Danube were the focus of key battles in the war between Muslims and ...