Munsey's Magazine, March 1915

This issue of Munsey's Magazine (Vol. LIV, No. 8, March 1915) contains a historical article by Frederic Austin Ogg titled "The New Kingdom of Poland: The Dramatic Story of a Long Struggle for National Existence."

The article traces Polish history from the tenth century through the eighteenth-century partitions. Ogg describes Poland's medieval expansion under Casimir the Great and the 1386 annexation of Lithuania, its sophisticated cultural life including universities and the contributions of Copernicus, and King John Sobieski's 1683 victory over Turkish forces at Vienna. The article details Poland's internal governmental decline, particularly the liberum veto—a constitutional device allowing any single diet member to veto legislation—which Ogg argues destroyed the nation's political stability. He then examines the three partitions orchestrated by Frederick the Great of Prussia, Catherine II of Russia, and Maria Theresa of Austria between 1772 and the early nineteenth century, treating Polish territory as disposable despite Poland's cultural achievements. The article includes numerous photographs of Warsaw's architecture, monuments, and institutions.