IT may safely be assumed that the early history of Prussia is known to the great majority of English readers only from the first four books of Carlyle’s Frederic the Great. So powerful was the ...

Last week we looked at Prussia’s Soldier King, Frederick Wilhelm I, and what he meant for Prussian history. As he ascended to the throne, within days it became evident he was the polar opposite of his ...

Last week we looked at the origins of House Hohenzollern and the Thirty Years’ War that brought Brandenburg-Prussia close to the brink of collapse. In 1640 at 20 years of age, a new Elector ascended ...

“Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia” by Max Egremont (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 359 pages, $28) Try to imagine that you have just survived a terrible war, and now that the war ...

NORRISTOWN — Join the Historical Society of Montgomery County (HSMC) for its next presentation in our Making History Greater Series when Michael Shaw presents The History of King of Prussia Mall. For ...