Brian Sandberg
This website offers historical perspectives on current issues, drawing on research and teaching experience with early modern European and global patterns of religious violence, civil conflict, and globalization.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
European History Early Modern Europe Early Modern World History of Violence War, Culture, and Society Renaissance Art and History French History Cultural History Political Culture Graduate Work in History Humanities Education Reformation History History in the Media Warfare in the Early Modern World Museums and Historical Memory Digital Humanities European Union Civil Conflict Strategy and International Politics Empires and Imperialism
Pledging Allegiance to a Monarch
30 April 2023
Monarchies are alive and well in the twenty-first century. And, the notion that “constitutional monarchies” have tamed the power of rulers is perhaps misplaced…. The plans...
Students in Florida Respond to the History Wars
20 April 2023
The History Wars are being waged in classrooms in the State of Florida, as a new front in the broader Culture Wars across the United States. Governor Ron DeSantis and the Republican-dominated...
Upcoming Conferences and Calls for Papers
19 April 2023
Graduate students working on the history of war and society, civil conflict, and violence studies may be interested in attending upcoming conferences on related issues. Some of these...
Global Military Transformations
19 April 2023
Jeremy Black, in collaboration with the Italian Society of Military History (SISM), is pleased to announce publication of a new edited volume titled Global Military Transformations:...