On June 28, 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered a chain reaction that lead to World War ...

The fourth of July may be synonymous with freedom in the United States, but around the world it has a very different meaning.

June 28th and 29th are dates that echo through the corridors of history.One of the most impactful events in global history ...

Below are some excerpts from a speech on the meaning of the Fourth of July delivered by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852. Fellow-citizens, pardon ...

The European Union has rarely played more than an auxiliary role in helping resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in ...

The Prince and Princess married nine months ago and Josefa, who is expecting her first child, told her Instagram followers ...

The Black Tom bombing, along with Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmerman Telegram, eventually led to ...

The second attempt in the same day proved successful and Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, ...

Bill was born Jan. 19, 1931, in Palmerton to John and Margaret Mlkvy who immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s from the Slovakian area of what was then the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. His ...

Most recently, the Austria-Hungarian Empire controlled the area containing present-day Slovenia. This Empire collapsed at the end of World War I. Slovenia next became one of the six republics of ...

About an hour and a half north of Budapest by car, there’s a little yellow church — the Basilica of Our Lady of the ...

One of only three surviving Byzantine crowns, it depicts a man and two sisters who jointly ruled the empire in the 11th century.