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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.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Douglas:

Military History May 23, 2023

The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur

War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe

Suzanne Sutherland

Hosted by Douglas Bell
In The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur: War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe (Cornell UP, 2022), Suzanne Sutherland explores the role of the military entrepreneur and explains how these international …
Early Modern History May 6, 2023

Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620

Christine Kooi

Hosted by Douglas Bell
In this new history of the Reformation in the Netherlands, Christine Kooi synthesizes fifty years of scholarship provide a broad general history of the Low Countries in the sixteenth century …
General History May 2, 2023

Capital's Terrorists

Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chad E. Pearson

Hosted by Douglas Bell
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers, government officials, journalists, and powerful individuals deployed a variety of violent tactics to control ordinary people and workers who sought to secure power …
General History November 3, 2022

The Soviet Myth of World War II

Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR

Jonathan Brunstedt

Hosted by Douglas Bell
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 society, a community committed to the …
General History November 2, 2022

True Blue

White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Clayton J. Butler

Hosted by Douglas Bell
During the American Civil War, thousands of citizens in the Deep South remained loyal to the United States. Though often overlooked, this small number of individuals possessed broad symbolic importance …
Early Modern History August 12, 2022

Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age

Adam Sundberg

Hosted by Douglas Bell
By the early eighteenth century, the economic primacy, cultural efflorescence, and geopolitical power of the Dutch Republic appeared to be waning. The end of this Golden Age was also an …
General History July 30, 2021

The United States Army and the Making of America

From Confederation to Empire, 1775-1903

Robert Wooster

Hosted by Douglas Bell
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 United States that extended beyond the battlefield is …
General History July 21, 2021

Sheer Misery

Soldiers in Battle in WWII

Mary Louise Roberts

Hosted by Douglas Bell
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 into a new problem …
General History July 9, 2021

The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

Nick Lloyd

Hosted by Douglas Bell
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 dirt. This iconic setting was the most …
Military History June 2, 2021

Edward M. Almond and the US Army

From the 92nd Infantry Division to the X Corps

Michael E. Lynch

Hosted by Douglas Bell
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 during World War II. During …