"Without history we will be hopelessly adrift...[the historian's mission is] to destroy received and traditional myths in order to challenge the students to a relentless use of their critical minds."
George L. Mosse
“The State University has thus both a peculiar power in the directness of its influence upon the whole people and a peculiar limitation in its dependence upon the people…..Herein is the source of its strength and the direction of its difficulties. For to fulfill its mission of uplifting the state to continuously higher levels the University must…..serve the time without yielding to it, it must recognize new needs without becoming subordinate to the immediately practical, to the short-sightedly expedient…..It must have the wisdom to make expenditures for results which pay manifold in enrichment….but which are not immediate and palpable.” – Frederick Jackson Turner, 1921
Mosse Program Documents
- 1852-1996 – History Department Catalogue Archive
- 1996 – George L. Mosse: Persecution of Lesbians and Gays in the Context of the National-Socialist Exercise of Power(pdf)
- 2000 – In Memoriam – George Lachmann Mosse (1918-1999) (pdf)
- 2001 – Elaine Reading, Reading Elaine By Jacob Stockinger (pdf)
- 2008 – George L. Mosse: An Exile at Home in the World (pdf)
- 2008 – Ethan Katz, “Displaced Historians, Dialectical Histories”
- 2009 – Professor David Sorkin (Former Chair of the Mosse Program Oversight Committee), An Appreciation by Ethan Katz (pdf)
- 2010 – “The First Ten Years: George Mosse’s Vision for the Mosse Program” by John Tortorice
- 2010 – Mosse Program Supports Symposium at Hebrew University (pdf)
- 2011 – Amihai Katz (1975-2011) (pdf)
- 2014: Joskowicz review of Karel Plessini, The Perils of Normalcy: George L. Mosse and the Remaking of Cultural History, 2014.
- 2014.09.01 – Steven Aschheim reviews “Eichmann Before Jerusalem” by Bettina Stangneth
- 2015.03.29 – Comic by Paul Buhle and Sabrina Jones, “Radical Walt! (Whitman, That Is)”
Mosse Program in the Press
- 2010: “The Art of Passionate Detachment” by Karel Plessini, the Mosse Program Visiting Scholar (pdf)
- 2014 – Listen to Mishy Harman on to the best of Our Knowledge
- 2014: Mosse Exchange Fellow Mishy Harman in The New York Times
- 2014.08.14: Rabbi Andy Bachman, former Mosse undergraduate student, in The New York Times
- 2015.09.23 – “What History Tells” Online Course on the UW-Madison Home Page
- 2015.09.24 – “What History Tells” Online Course in the Daily Cardinal
- 2015.10.14 – “What History Tells” Online Course in the Badger Herald
- Professor Biruté Ciplijauskaité received the 2015 Governor’s Archives Award for Archival Advocacy. Professor Ciplijauskaité has done a number of translations with the Mosse Program.