On this day in 1704, Gibraltar was surrendered to the Anglo-Dutch fleet. 321 years later, Eliot Wilson looks at what that means today.

Jakob Fugger wasn’t just Europe’s richest man - he was one of its most influential power brokers. His financial backing helped secure the rise of the Habsburg dynasty, shaping royal succession ...

Prussia seized Habsburg territory in Silesia (today mainly in southern Poland), but the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa summoned a defensive force, and her dominion survived, although she lost most ...

The NATO summit, held July 10–11 in Washington, D.C., marked the 75th anniversary of the world’s most powerful military alliance.

The Austrian Studies Association (formerly the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, MALCA) continues traditions started in 1961, as the only North American association devoted to ...

For the Habsburg Monarchy in the seventeenth century, it was very important to collect, send to Vienna, and evaluate up-to-date information on the Ottoman Empire. Following the Long Turkish War ...

Eduard Habsburg, Hungary’s ambassador to the Vatican, at the chapel of Santa Maria dell’Anima, which holds the relics of some of his imperial ancestors, in Rome. Stephanie Gengotti for The New ...