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 ...
In Germany and Prussia, Luther’s anti-Jewish writings ... These ideas paved the way for racial antisemitism in the late 19th century. Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French Army, was ...
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 ...