Professor at Monmouth University

A specialist in the history of the British Isles and a past recipient of Monmouth’s Distinguished Teacher Award, Professor Campbell is the author of A History of the British Isles: Prehistory to the Present (2017), named by the American Library Association a Choice Outstanding Academic title. Professor Campbell’s other books include Ireland’s History: Prehistory to the Present (2014), Windows into Men’s Souls: Religious Nonconformity in Tudor and Early Stuart England (2012), Western Civilization: A Global and Comparative Approach,Volume I: To 1715 and Volume II: Since 1600 (2012), and The Intellectual Struggle of the English Papists in the Seventeenth Century (1986). He has also published a two-volume anthology, Western Civilization in a Global Context (Volume I: Prehistory to the Enlightenment: Sources and Documents; Volume II: The Modern Age: Sources and Documents (2015).

Among his other publications, his most recent is an essay titled “You Say You Want a Revolution’: The Beatles and the Political Culture of the 1960s” in Roll Up for the Mystery Tour!: The Beatles, Sgt, Pepper, and the Summer of Love, edited by Kenneth Womack, Lexington Books, 2017 and an introductory essay on fascism for the online Churchill Archive (www.churchillarchive.com/).

His current projects include “Love, Love, Love: Tracing the Contours of the Beatles’ Inner Circle,” in “The Beatles in Context,” edited by Kenneth Womack, under contract with Cambridge University Press, and “The Beatles’ Reception in the Sixties: Revolution and Social Change,” under contract with Bloomsbury Press.

His most recent book, an edited volume titled “American Popular Culture and the Beatles,” is forthcoming in Spring 2019.

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Recent, Current, and Upcoming Classes

American Popular Culture and the Beatles

The Beatles

Bruce Springsteen’s America: Land of Hope and Dreams

Classical Civilizations

The Historical Novel

History of the British Isles I and II

History of Ireland

The Philosophy of History

The Renaissance

The Reformation

Tudor-Stuart England

Twentieth-Century Britain

Western Civilization in World Perspective I and II