Growing up amid his uncle's holdings in Posen, Prussia, the fascinated young man ... forests that were recklessly cut throughout the 19th century, European forests were, for the most part, managed ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...

Prussia's development as a successful, modern industrial state gave hope to German nationalists. Economically, unification through the Zollverein economic alliance of 1834 had been a success ...

At the end of the 19th century, the fates of two crown princes and their empires, Rudolf of Austria and Wilhelm of Prussia, get linked to each other.