Monthly Archives: December 2018

First World War Soldiers in Color

Posted on December 18, 2018 by briansandberg

Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old has been released in the United States, with screenings in selected cities this month. I was lucky to get to view the film yesterday in Chicago and want to offer some initial responses … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical Film, History in the Media, History of Violence, War and Society, War in Film, War, Culture, and Society | Leave a comment

Frank Valadez AHA Spotlight

Posted on December 12, 2018 by briansandberg

Frank Valadez, my friend and fellow UIUC graduate History alum, is featured in an American Historical Association spotlight today! Frank is an amazingly flexible history thinker and practitioner who currently serves as  Director of the Division for Public Education at … Continue reading →

Posted in Careers in History, Education Policy, History in the Media, Humanities Education, The Past Alive: Teaching History | Leave a comment

Promoting Diversity in Undergraduate Admissions

Posted on December 10, 2018 by briansandberg

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis has published an article presenting new research on diversity in undergraduate admissions. The article considers the State of Texas’s 10 percent plan, which provides guaranteed admissions into state universities for the top 10 percent of … Continue reading →

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Femmes à la cour de France. Charges et fonctions, XVe-XIXe siècle

Posted on December 6, 2018 by briansandberg

Femmes à la cour de France. Charges et fonctions (XVe – XIXe siècle), ed. Caroline zum Kolk, Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier (Villeneuve d’Ascq, Septentrion, 2018), ISBN-102757423614, has been released. This collective volume on women at the royal court of France in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Court Studies, Cultural History, Early Modern Europe, European History, European Wars of Religion, French History, French Wars of Religion, Noble Culture and History of Elites, Reformation History, Renaissance Art and History, Women and Gender History | Leave a comment

Postdoctoral Fellowships on the European Fiscal-Military System

Posted on December 6, 2018 by briansandberg

The Faculty of History at the University of Oxford is seeking six Research Associates to join the team from September 2019, or as soon as possible thereafter, for an ambitious 5-year multi-national research project. ‘The European Fiscal-Military System 1530-1870’ is funded … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival Research, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, Empires and Imperialism, European History, Grants and Fellowships, History of Violence, Reformation History, Renaissance Art and History, State Development Theory, Strategy and International Politics, War and Society, War, Culture, and Society, Warfare in the Early Modern World | Leave a comment

Featured Review on War and Culture in American Historical Review

Posted on December 6, 2018 by briansandberg

I am happy to report that my review essay on three new books on war and culture in early modern Europe has been published in the American Historical Review (AHR). The books under review are: Ilya Berkovich. Motivation in War: … Continue reading →

Posted in Early Modern Europe, European History, French History, French Revolution and Napoleon, History of Violence, Revolts and Revolutions, War and Society, War, Culture, and Society, Warfare in the Early Modern World | Leave a comment