Doug Bell

History PhD @historyTAMU | IB History Teacher | @NewBooksNetwork | Former Postdoc @USAHEC | West Virginia Enthusiast | Views My Own | RT ≠ Endorsements | He/him

[Serhii Plokhy @SPlokhy]

My interview in Guardian today. Many thanks to ⁦@chiggi⁩ What a wonderful interviewer and writer she is. https://t.co/xB5oDKxx42

[Doug Bell @douglasibell]

Had a great discussion earlier this week on @NewBooksNetwork with @ChristineKooi (@HistoryLsu) about her new book on the Reformation in the Low Countries from @cambUP_History. Give it a listen! https://t.co/5LaypaBsbi

[Doug Bell @douglasibell]

Hey @evelinedesmalen @CornellPress does great work. You might enjoy: "In This Together" The press is also giving everyone a chance to #PWYW2023 right now. Looking forward to discussing some recent publications from the press later this month on New Books.

[Doug Bell @douglasibell]

The marker above notes the camp was renamed Schattenberg and makes positive comments about Indonesian food. It says nothing about the living conditions they faced for 20 years.

[Doug Bell @douglasibell]

Yesterday my wife and I cycled from Assen to Camp Westerbork in the northern Netherlands. This was a transit camp for Jews and other Nazi victims who were sent from the Netherlands to Nazi death camps. Along the path, we came across a monument to a downed British Lancaster.

[Doug Bell @douglasibell]

They were transported to the Netherlands with their families as a temporary measure; until it was safe for them to return. However, they were placed in isolated camps including Westerbork and lived there in poor conditions until the 1970s.

[Doug Bell @douglasibell]

Hilda van Stockum wrote children's books about the resistance from her home in Long Island. In researching, she exchanged letters with former resistance members and a number of women. The collection may help shed more light women in the resistance. https://t.co/DxnySSXIuP

[Doug Bell @douglasibell]

American soldiers being "knighted" to hunt Germany. Today a celebration, but from 1945 to 1948, it was a highly political debate about what "democratic hunting" looked like (see my dissertation). The "knighting" should tell you who won. Thanks @gharward. https://t.co/QO5N1wRjfm

[Rachel Carson Center @CarsonCenter]

The application portal for the 2024 Landhaus cohort is now open!
Go to https://t.co/bAHr4TGfOc to access it.

#rcc #rcclandhaus #fellowship #academia

[Doug Bell @douglasibell]

Love letters in Bergen-Belson. Moving read (in Dutch) about love in a concentration camp. https://t.co/fcACcDIzmq

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[Gordon Darroch @GordonDarroch]

Dutch universities are concerned that Chinese postgraduate students may not just be here for the stroopwafels. A deal that was financially too good to turn down – a 100% state-funded scholarship programme – turns out to have a high hidden cost. https://t.co/fHUo2IaOxt