By popular demand, we have produced a new series of historical videos. These cover two important events that have their centennials in 2018: the execution of the Romanov royal family by the Bolsheviks, and the Armistice that ended the Great War. We also h...
Pen-pal to philosophes, patron of the arts, champion of women, genius of foreign policy, taker of rich and powerful lovers: Catherine II of Russia was a formidable presence, decades if not centuries ahead of her time, and worthy of her superlative sobriquet ”the Great.“
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Twenty-eighteen marks the centennial of Armistice Day. Here is a collection of silver coins to mark the occasion. For wholesale information, click here.
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On 11 November, 1918...
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On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, paid a state visit to the Bosnian city of Sarajevo. Although the Balkans were nominally under imperial control, the trip was fraught with peril. The city was honeycombed with operatives of the Serbian secret society called Unification or Death, commonl...
On April 6, 1917, 100 years ago today, the United States declared war on Germany, entering the Great War and ultimately tipping the scales in favor of the Allied powers.
In the spring of 1917, the US armed forces were little more than a regional power. "In military terms, the U.S. Army was small and out-of-date, hardly more than a consta...
On the eve of the First World War, Russia was ripe for revolution. For centuries, the country had been the most autocratic of European empires, the disparity between its rich and poor the widest, the rights of its people the most limited. Making matters worse, the Russian military suffered a string of humiliating losses in the 19th ce...
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