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About Douglas Bell
Douglas Bell, PhD, is a writer, teacher, and historian who lives in the Netherlands. His research interests center on American military history, American foreign policy, German history, and European Studies. Tweet him @douglasibell.Douglas Bell is a writer, teacher, and historian who lives in the Netherlands. His research interests center on American military history, American foreign policy, German history, and European Studies. Tweet him @douglasibell.
NBN Episodes hosted by Douglas:
May 23, 2023
The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur
In The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur: War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe (Cornell UP, 2022), Suzanne Sutherland explores the role of…
May 6, 2023
Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620
In this new history of the Reformation in the Netherlands, Christine Kooi synthesizes fifty years of scholarship provide a broad general history of th…
May 2, 2023
Capital's Terrorists
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers, government officials, journalists, and powerful individuals deployed a variety of…
November 3, 2022
The Soviet Myth of World War II
In The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR (Cambridge UP, 2021), Jonathan Brunstedt examines how Soviet…
November 2, 2022
True Blue
During the American Civil War, thousands of citizens in the Deep South remained loyal to the United States. Though often overlooked, this small number…
August 12, 2022
Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age
By the early eighteenth century, the economic primacy, cultural efflorescence, and geopolitical power of the Dutch Republic appeared to be waning. The…
July 30, 2021
The United States Army and the Making of America
The story of how the American military—and more particularly the regular army—has played a vital role in the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U…
July 21, 2021
Sheer Misery
Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear. "I ran…
July 9, 2021
The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dir…
June 2, 2021
Edward M. Almond and the US Army
Edward M. Almond belonged to the generation of US Army officers who came of age during World War I and then ascended to senior command positions durin…