POTSDAM, Germany (AP) — Generations of Germans believe Frederick the Great brought the beloved potato to Germany. The legend is this: King Frederick II of Prussia wanted his subjects to eat potatoes, ...

The Prussian king admired the commander of the Continental Army. But the two statesmen had different conceptions of ...

Few figures of the Middle Ages are as famous as Frederick II of Swabia, emperor and king of Sicily. Around this sovereign who lived between 1194 and 1250 legends and myths arose and dozens of ...

Frederick II was a powerful Holy Roman Emperor of the Medieval Era often referred to as stupor mundi, or wonder of the world. Born in 1194, Frederick's reign saw the Holy Roman Empire reach its-all ...

A look at Frederick II who, behind his numerous titles and positions, including both king and emperor, was an "inexhaustible intellectual adventurer and a bold politician and strategist." Christmas ...

Dr Adam Storring helps us understand Frederick II of Prussia, a complicated man, who like Xerxes and Alexander III before him, was obsessed with outdoing and outshining his father. Read the transcript ...

The last couple of episodes we looked at Prussian society and its development and progression. We left off at the death of Prussia’s Soldier King in 1740, a man that dedicated his entire life to ...