My Virtual Talk on Wine and Beer Marketing Battles in Fascist Italy
I recently gave a talk with UC Los Angeles’ Center for European and Russian Studies on my ongoing research on wine and beer marketing battles […]
Articles by Brian J Griffith
How to Keep the Lights On in Democracies
Over the past few weeks, I along with the other members of the Editorial Board for the New Fascism Syllabus co-authored an open letter of […]
A Virtual Talk by Alan Liu on “The Sense of History in the Digital Age”
In conjunction with my ongoing graduate seminar on digital history (HIST 201DH: Theories and Practices of Digital History) at UC Santa Barbara, I recently organized […]
“Food Fights,” Zapruder World 5 (2019)
I recently co-edited a special issue of the Open Access public-engagement journal, Zapruder World, on the global history of food and social conflicts. Spanning two millennia, […]
Where Monsters Are Born
Since late-September 2018, I have been living in Rome on a Fulbright Research Grant completing my dissertation research and manuscript. As soon as my family […]
UCSB’s The Current on My Interwar Crisis Course
Recently, I sat down with Jim Logan at University of California, Santa Barbara’s news and announcements blog, The Current, to discuss my current summer course, […]
Interwar Crisis: Europe, 1918-1939
Today I begin teaching my summer course “Interwar Crisis: Europe, 1918-1939” at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB History Department). During the next six weeks, my students […]
The New Fascism Syllabus
In the aftermath of the United States’ 2016 presidential election, both scholars and citizens began asking themselves “How could this happen?!” How could someone like […]
Scholars of Authoritarianism on the Trump Administration: A Collection of Recent Opinion Pieces and Interviews
During the seemingly endless months leading up to 2016’s presidential election in the United States, a number of historians of twentieth century authoritarianism — scholars […]
“The Whole World Is Our Homeland,” Zapruder World 1 (2014)
I recently joined an international group of scholars and activists to collaboratively develop an Open Access History journal titled Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History […]