Editor's note: On June 27, 1964, Newsday published this article that went "Behind the Headlines," examining the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 50 years after it occurred. We republish it ...

As we all know, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on June 28th, 1914, and set off a series of events that led to World War I.<P>What is often not addressed, however, is the ...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was only the trigger — the real causes ran deeper. Austria-Hungary saw a chance ...

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2013. Pp. xxxviii, 384. Illus., map, stemma, notes, biblio., index. $27.99. ISBN: 1250000165 On the eve of the centennial of the ...

On June 28, 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked World War I. NPR's Ari Shapiro takes a tour of the city and learns the... A Century Ago In Sarajevo: A Plot, A Farce And A ...

On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, as they rode through the streets of Sarajevo. Journalists and pundits have relied on a few select metaphors ...

Saturday marked one hundred years since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. In hindsight, the assassination clearly marks the beginning of the process ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Michael Kazin discussed the alliances in Europe prior to World War I and how that led to World War I. He discussed how the assassination of ...

“You don’t want to glamorize these individuals but you do want to humanize them. I think it’s very brave to actually say, ‘I want to create characters that you have complicated relationships to,'” ...

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos responded with some dismay to the fact that his band had inadvertently started trending as people drew comparisons between the assassination of the group’s ...

For all the horror that his assassination caused, Archduke Franz Ferdinand the man remains under-recognized. Made heir after his cousin committed suicide and his father declined the throne, Ferdinand ...