Derided as the “prison of nations,” the sprawling, multiethnic state was in fact surprisingly progressive. By Paul Miller-Melamed and Claire Morelon Dr. Miller-Melamed is an associate professor of ...

Belknap/Harvard University Press, $35.00, 592 pages Visitors to present-day Vienna sometimes feel as if they have wandered into a vast, open-air museum, or perhaps a particularly well-managed theme ...

Anthony Alofsin observes that his controlling metaphor in When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Hapsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933 (University of Chicago Press), has a long ...

WARSAW — Four elderly members of the aristocratic Hapsburg family, which for more than six centuries ruled Austria and then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, would like some beer--lots of it. More ...

Explore the complexities of the post-Westphalian era, where nation comparisons often mislead on economic disparities. My title alludes to the fact that from what I can tell the old core Hapsburg ...

Otto von Hapsburg, whose family ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire since the 13th century and one point most of the European continent, died Monday at age 98. Hapsburg was born in 1912 in Reichenau, ...

Investigating the discovery of a seemingly long-lost diamond had both the intrigue of a mystery novel and the fact-checking hurdles of a history paper. By Robin Pogrebin Robin Pogrebin is a New York ...

The Hapsburg dynasty, one of the most influential and celebrated in Europe was driven to extinction because of inbreeding, say researchers. The kings who ruled Spain and its empire from 1516 for ...

Vienna’s Hapsburg Palace has a tropical butterfly zone that never ceases to entertain me. In this community of royal butterflies, the trays serving up rotting slices of banana are the tavern. Fluttery ...

On May 10, 1881, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium wore this handmade veil for her wedding to Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Rudolf. It measures 100 inches wide by 123 inches long. The Princess’ mother, ...