IT may safely be assumed that the early history of Prussia is known to the great majority of English readers only from the first four books of Carlyle’s Frederic the Great. So powerful was the ...

In the first few months of his second term, President Donald Trump has raised concerns among commentators and academics that the U.S. could face a constitutional crisis. Trump has issued numerous ...

When Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben arrived at Valley Forge on Feb. 23, 1778, one soldier likened him to "an ancient fabled God of War ... a perfect personification of Mars." Far from a ...

Major General Friedrich Wilhelm Baron von Steuben’s loud, gruff voice can be heard throughout Valley Forge, barking orders in his limited knowledge of English to General George Washington’s cold, ...