JACKSON, Tenn. — Sept. 30, 2021 — Award-winning historian David A. Bell will speak at the 24th annual Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lecture on Oct. 25 at 51社区.
An internationally recognized historian of early modern France and Napoleon Bonaparte, Bell serves as the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions at Princeton University.
Bell will host two lectures that are free and open to the public. He will speak in the G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel at 7:15 p.m. on 鈥淕eorge Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte and the Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution.鈥� Before that, he will lecture on 鈥淣apoleon Bonaparte and the Origins of Modern Total War鈥� in the Carl Grant Events Center at 2 p.m.
Bell is a prize-winning author of seven books on European history, including 鈥淭he First Total War: Napoleon鈥檚 Europe and the Birth of War As We Know It,鈥� which won the Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
As an alumnus from Harvard University, Bell studied at the highly esteemed École Normale Supérieure in Paris under a Harvard fellowship. Since then, he earned his master鈥檚 and doctorate degrees in history at Princeton University, where he has taught since 2010.
Previously, Bell served as the dean for the school of arts and sciences at John Hopkins University and a professor of history at Yale University. In addition, Bell taught as a visiting professor at two of France鈥檚 most prestigious institutions of higher learning and a visiting fellow at Tokyo University in Japan.
For more information about the lecture, contact Stephen Carls at (731) 661-5262 or scarls@uu.edu.