About Douglas Bell

Douglas Bell, PhD, is a writer, teacher, and historian who lives in the Netherlands. He is a lecture-reseacher at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences. 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. He is a lecture-reseacher at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences. 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:

Suzanne Sutherland, "The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur: War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe" (Cornell UP, 2022)

May 23, 2023

The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur

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…

Christine Kooi, "Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

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 th…

Chad E. Pearson, "Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century" (UNC Press, 2022)

May 2, 2023

Capital's Terrorists

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…

Jonathan Brunstedt, "The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

November 3, 2022

The Soviet Myth of World War II

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…

Clayton J. Butler, "True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction" (LSU Press, 2022)

November 2, 2022

True Blue

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…

Adam Sundberg, "Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

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…

Robert Wooster, "The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775-1903" (UP of Kansas, 2021)

July 30, 2021

The United States Army and the Making of America

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 U…

Mary Louise Roberts, "Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

July 21, 2021

Sheer Misery

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…

Nick Lloyd, "The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918" (Liveright, 2021)

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 dir…

Michael E. Lynch, "Edward M. Almond and the US Army: From the 92nd Infantry Division to the X Corps" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)

June 2, 2021

Edward M. Almond and the US Army

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 durin…