The palaces, concert halls, cathedrals, and public parks invoke this storied past, leaving a casual visitor with the ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Natasha Wheatley on the transformation of the Habsburg Empire from a multinational collection of polities to discrete nation-states.

By 1600 the Holy Roman Empire was firmly in the grip of the Habsburgs, ruling from the Hofburg palace within Vienna's city walls. The empire had the largest population in Europe; it was bigger ...

Ferdinand II, who had inherited the Austrian branch of the Habsburg lands Charles V divided in 1556, faced a revolt by Protestant nobles in the Holy Roman Empire.

I also spoke with Karl von Habsburg, the man who, if the Habsburg empire still existed, would be its emperor. Both expressed a sense that history moves in cycles, and that perhaps their ...

Six days after the death in 1922 of his father—Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs—little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig ...

The Habsburg emperors were conservative in every way; almost without exception they upheld the status quo. True reactionaries, they had an army that did what had to be done.

Three days later, he crossed the frontier into neighboring Silesia, northernmost province of the Habsburg Monarchy, then at peace with Prussia. Frederick had chosen his moment wisely.

The monarchy itself withstood the strains of war—amplified by urban food shortages—until 1918. Such resilience indicates more strength and cohesion than critical historians allowed.