A show at the International Center of Photography focuses on Usher Fellig, aka Weegee, featuring the pictures of crime scenes ...

Keller Professor of International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) to ...

This European capital city has a tumultuous history and was the site that sparked the outbreak of World War 1.

The shocking death of Czechoslovakia’s foreign minister – and son of its founding father -- just after the 1948 Communist ...

Austria has more to offer, especially for those who want to explore its mountains. If you lack the time (or the interest) to ...

There is something perfectly unclassifiable about the Austrian writer Karl-Markus Gauß’s new book In the Forest of Metropoles ...

In Halychyna, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Mykhailo Hrushevsky – one of the “fathers” of Ukrainian historical science – published works that described the history of Ukraine as a continuous ...

Chicago has always provided a place for the disenfranchised, whether from the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century, or today for those fleeing violence, famine, environmental disasters or ...

Following World War I and the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, both Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, which later became Yugoslavia, laid claim to the city of Fiume, ...

The separatist Süd-Tiroler Freiheit party, which has been climbing the polls, put out a campaign poster showing a pair of feet on a morgue table with a sign reading: "The doctor didn't know German".

is a multigenerational saga in which one family’s story becomes a metonymy for the fate of the often snowy Austro-Hungarian empire. In 1859, the humbly born Lieutenant Trotta is made a baron ...

For centuries, the region was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire in so-called "Greater Hungary" -- a notion referred to with nostalgia by the current nationalist government in Budapest.