Narrator: Jane Williams Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 22 May 2014 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Total Time: 48 minutes, 31 seconds **To access the OHMS oral history page for Jane Williams, which allows listeners to search text …
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Oral History: Christopher Browning
Narrator: Christopher Browning Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 2 September 2020 Format: Text only via email during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic. Tortorice: Where were you born? In what kind of milieu were you born? What was …
Oral History: Anson Rabinbach
Narrator: Anson Rabinbach Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: October 26, 2017 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Total Time: 2 hours, 34 minutes **To access the OHMS oral history page for Anson Rabinbach, which allows listeners to search text …
Oral History: Joan Wallach Scott
Narrator: Joan Wallach Scott Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: November 5, 2019 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Total time: 1 hour, 44 minutes, 30 seconds Tortorice: Testing. One, two, three. Testing, one, two, three. Testing, one, two, …
Conrad Allen, review of Mary Louise Roberts’s “Sheer Misery”
Mary Louise Roberts. Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 208 PP. Cloth $23.00. ISBN: 9780226753287. In Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII, Mary Louise Roberts examines the …
In Memoriam: Katherine Aaslestad (1961-2021)
Katherine Aaslestad (1961-2021) Historian of Modern German and European History Katherine Aaslestad, Professor of Modern German and European History at West Virginia University, passed away at her home on April 24, 2021, at the age …
James C. Ungureanu, review of Moshe Sluhovsky’s “Becoming a New Self”
Moshe Sluhovsky. Becoming a New Self: Practices and Beliefs in Early Modern Catholicism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 232 PP. Cloth $45.00. ISBN: 9780226472850. In the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation, in the fading …
Kathryn Julian, review of Monica Black’s “A Demon-Haunted Land”
Monica Black. A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post–WWII Germany. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2020. 352 PP. Cloth $29.99. ISBN: 9781250225672. Monica Black’s A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, …
Takumi Satō, Afterword to the Japanese Edition of Mosse’s “Nationalization of the Masses”
George L. Mosse. Taishū no kokuminka – Nachizumu ni itaru seiji shinboru to taishū bunka [The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars through the Third Reich]. …
Manuela Consonni, review of John Tedeschi’s “Italian Jews Under Fascism”
John Tedeschi with Anne C. Tedeschi. Italian Jews Under Fascism, 1938-1945: A Personal and Historical Narrative. Madison: Parallel Press, 2015. Paper $35.00. 443 PP. ISBN: 9781934795699. John Tedeschi’s important volume deals with the years of …
Noelle Turtur, review of Victoria de Grazia’s “The Perfect Fascist”
Victoria de Grazia. The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. 528 PP. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 9780674986398. Victoria de Grazia’s The Perfect Fascist opens with …
Isobel Ashby review of Dan Royles’s “To Make the Wounded Whole”
Dan Royles. To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 319 PP. Cloth $29.95. ISBN: 9781469661339. Dan Royles’ new volume explores HIV/AIDS activism in …
Adam Blackler review of Sean Wempe’s “Revenants of the German Empire”
Sean Andrew Wempe. Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, Imperialism, & the League of Nations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiii + 288 PP. Cloth $74.00. ISBN: 9780190907211. In the aftermath of World War …
Max Lazar review of Robert Gellately’s “Hitler’s True Believers”
Robert Gellately. Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 464 pp. ISBN: 9780190689902. The winds of change were blowing in Braunschweig when Elisabeth Gebensleben-von Alten, the wife of the city’s …
Spencer J. Weinreich review of Tamar Herzig’s “A Convert’s Tale”
Tamar Herzig. A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. 400 pp. ISBN 9780674237537. In a story told with all the elegance of Renaissance goldsmithery, the single …
Eric Kurlander review of Anson Rabinbach’s “Staging the Third Reich”
Anson Rabinbach. Staging the Third Reich: Essays in Cultural and Intellectual History. Edited by Stefanos Geroulanos, Dagmar Herzog. New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. 494 pp. ISBN 9780367818975. Anson Rabinbach has spent the …
Matthew Unangst review of Marie Muschalek’s “Violence as Usual”
Marie Muschalek, Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019). 270 PP. $49.95. ISBN: 978-1501742859. Marie Muschalek’s Violence as Usual takes as its subject the Landespolizei, …
Sunny Yudkoff: “Mosse, Literature, and the Wisconsin Workshop”
Scholars enter the world of George L. Mosse scholarship through different avenues. Years ago, as a graduate student studying modern Jewish literature, I first encountered Mosse’s work through The Image of Man (1996). At the …
Mosse Comic: “Ideas can be Weapons”
Nick Thorkelson, Dave Wagner, and Paul Buhle have illustrated and written a new comic based on Mosse’s scholarship: “Ideas can be Weapons.” Below we have asked all three to answer a few questions about this …
Maria Mitchell review of Giuliana Chamedes’s “A Twentieth-Century Crusade”
Giuliana Chamedes. A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 432 pp. $39.95 cloth. ISBN 978-0674983427. Giuliana Chamedes’ masterfully conceived and richly documented study of Vatican policy …
Grace Allen, Exploring the Power and Limits of Victim-Witness Testimony in Emma Kuby’s “Political Survivors”
Emma Kuby’s Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945 tells the institutional history of the International Commission against the Concentration Camp Regime (CICRC), a short-lived organization assembled …
Jennifer Gramer, The Art of Collaboration- “Hitler’s Art Dealer”
In September of 2010, German authorities at the Swiss border stopped an aged man on his way back into Germany. The man, nearly 80 years old and bent with age, would have seemed harmless had …
Kayci Olson Harris, Teaching the Cold War during COVID-19
Since my early days as a history graduate student at UW-Madison, I hoped that one day I would enjoy the opportunity of teaching my very own course. Thanks to the George L. Mosse Program in …
Chad S.A. Gibbs, On the Shoulders of Yitzhak Arad: A Review of The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
On the Shoulders of Yitzhak Arad: A Review of The Operation Reinhard Death Camps and Paths for Future Research on Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka The three extermination camps of Aktion Reinhard, or Operation Reinhard, sit …
Scott Spector, The Novel Corona Virus Crisis as Pedagogical Opportunity: History of the Present
As the COVID-19 crisis hit the United States and our students were sent home to complete the semester remotely, my colleague and I were teaching an introductory lecture course called “History of the Present.” The …