The early chapters of The Assassination of the Archduke concentrate on Franz Ferdinand’s family, birth, childhood, education, and military career. This gives the reader a good look at the complexities ...

Theater that leaves audiences with the option of drawing their own conclusions can be compelling. Preopening notices for Archduke, currently playing at Philly’s Tony award-winning Wilma Theater, made ...

Through his spy network Dimitrijević likely heard of Franz Ferdinand’s visit to Sarajevo shortly after the Archduke agreed to the trip in mid-February, and well before it was publicized in the ...

Just under a hundred years later Pope Francis was voted into office on 13th March 2013. His eleven year papacy did not ...

When Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914, few could have known it would reverberate for four years of brutal war ...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to events that meant even if people didn’t want to fight, they had made promises which had to be kept. 28th July 1914 – Austria-Hungary ...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Archduchess Sophie of Austria moments before they were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on 28th June, 1914. The assassination was a key trigger for the outbreak of WW1.

When we go to theater, we expect plays to have an ending, but it won’t work that way in Wilma Theater’s upcoming production of “Archduke,” the first play directed by Wilma’s co-founder Blanka Zizka ...

sickly boys searching for meaning were manipulated into hate by a bombastic ideologue and inspired to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The event is historically viewed as the catalyst of ...

One hundred years ago this past summer, western countries, including Canada, ended up in conflict as a result of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the now-famous ...

Who: Bosnian-Serbian nationalist who, at 19, assassinated heir-apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg. Why is he important?: ...