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 ...

This was the case of Prussia, a former duchy that in the early ... His famous book, L’Homme-machine (The Human Machine) argued for a materialistic—and, some argued, an atheistic ...

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 ...

But they repeatedly reversed these decisions. Apart from Austria, Prussia was the strongest German state. It was the only state that showed any real ability to unite Germany. It was clear that ...