Media - Website of David A. Bell, Department of History, Princeton University

Here are links to some recent video and audio appearances, reviews of my books, and other notices of my writing:

Essays and reviews featured on "Arts & Letters Daily" (aldaily.com)

"Vers une nouvelle histoire des Lumières" (four lectures at the Collège de France, Spring 2025).

"The Enlightenment," Keen on America podcast, April 21, 2025.

"Il culto dei capi," Oltre le illusioni podcast, November 30, 2024.

Media, reviews and writings related to Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020).

"Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union," PBS television, January 6, 2022.

Lecture for UCLA Hellenic Center: The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions, April 4, 2021

Discussion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, Writ Large

podcast, November 2020.

Review of Napoleon: A Concise Biography by Anthony Crubaugh in Teaching History

Review of Napoleon: A Very Short Introduction by Malcolm Crook in French History

Review of Napoleon: A Very Short Introduction by Donald Sutherland in H-France

Discussion of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now and my review of the book in The Nation, "Likeville" podcast, April 19, 2018 (audio).

Review of Shadows of Revolution by Marisa Linton, Journal of Modern History, June, 2018.

David A. Bell and Anthony Grafton discuss The West: A New History (video).

Review of Shadows of Revolution by Lloyd Kramer, H-France, October 2016.

Review of Napoleon: A Concise Biography by Howard Brown, Journal of Modern History, September, 2017.

Keynote Lecture, "George Washington and the Two Corsicans," John Carter Brown Library symposium on Gilbert Chinard, March 17, 2017 (video).