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Will Kirsch, review of Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, ed. “Did it Happen Here? Perspectives on Fascism and America”
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, ed. Did it Happen Here? Perspectives on Fascism and America. New York: W.W. Norton, 2024. 384 PP. $28.99 Cloth. ISBN 9781324074397. You would be hard pressed to avoid media coverage of the upcoming …
Collin Bernard, Teaching European Urban History
As a George L. Mosse Teaching Fellow, I crafted and taught a history course entitled “Europe’s Urban Age: From 1900 to Today” in the Spring 2024 semester. Over fourteen weeks, seventeen UW-Madison undergraduates and I …
Matthew Yokell, review of Piotr Puchalski “Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918–1939”
Piotr Puchalski. Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918–1939. Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe. Routledge: Abingdon and New York, 2022. xvi + 312 PP. Cloth $180.00; Paper $54.99. ISBN: 9780367674700. …
Maxwell Greenberg, review of David Austin Walsh “Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right”
David Austin Walsh. Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. 320 PP. Paper $35.00. ISBN: 9780300260977. Over the last few years, a growing body of scholarship …
Giuliana Chamedes, review of Stefanos Geroulanos “The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence and Our Obsession with Human Origins”
Stefanos Geroulanos. The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins. New York: Liveright, 2024. 512 PP. $29.99 Cloth. ISBN: 9781324091455. In November 1898, the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy resettled in his …
Eliana Chavkin, Lecture: “A Paradox of Memory: Memorial Union and UW-Madison’s War Dead”
Thank you all for being here. I’m the director of the George L. Mosse Program in History here at UW Madison at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This is Libby’s and I’s, I believe fourth—is …
Maddy McDonald, “On Serving as the Undergraduate Intern in European and Digital History”
In my final year as an undergraduate student at UW, I served as the undergraduate intern in European and Digital History at the George L. Mosse Program in History. My primary focus was on a …
Netta Green, review of Miranda Sachs “An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris”
Miranda Sachs. An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 256 PP. $83.00 Cloth. ISBN 9780197638453. Miranda Sachs’ latest monograph, An Age to Work, represents a significant contribution …
Gregory Jones-Katz, review of Richard Wolin’s “Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology”
Richard Wolin. Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 488 PP. Cloth $38.00. ISBN 9780300233186. While introducing his 1924 lecture course on Aristotle, Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), one of the …
Interview: Emma DeLaney Strenski, former Mosse Program intern
On Wednesday, 21 February, Mosse Program Project Assistant Edward Frame caught up with UW-Madison graduate Emma DeLaney Strenski. Strenski , who was the Mosse Program’s inaugural Undergraduate Intern in European and Digital History, is currently …
Interview: Doug E. L. Haynes, “100 Sketches of George L. Mosse Humanities”
On Friday, 23 February, the Mosse Program interviewed UW-Madison graduate and local artist Doug E. L. Haynes. Haynes is completing a book “One Hundred Sketches of the George L. Mosse Humanities Building.” We got an …
Katherine Alcauskas, “New Lachmann-Mosse Family Artwork Donations to the UW-Madison Chazen Museum of Art”
The Chazen Museum of Art recently added to its collection seventeen artworks descended within the Lachmann-Mosse family and generously donated by John Tortorice. Altogether, they demonstrate the eclectic collection that the wealthy and influential German-Jewish …
Edward Frame, review of of Samuel Moyn’s “Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times”
Samuel Moyn. Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 240 PP. Paper $27.50. ISBN: 9780300266214. The argument of Samuel Moyn’s new book, Liberalism Against …
Ashley Barnes-Gilbert, review of Margot Canaday’s “Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America”
Margot Canaday. Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2023. 312 PP. Paper $39.95. ISBN: 9780691205953. For those of us who study the history of sexuality, Margot Canaday’s …
CFA: 2024 Mosse First Book Prize
Submission Period Now Open for George L. Mosse First Book Prize The University of Wisconsin Press and the George L. Mosse Program in History are pleased to announce that the submission period is now open …
Daniel Aschheim, Lecture: “Bruno Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity”
Memorial Union Date: 14:30, 6 June 2023 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen, Taili Hardiman Transcript: Skye Doney: First, I would say there are a few books for sale. Twenty bucks paperback. Daniel Aschheim: Bargain price. …
Oral History: Lowell Bergman
Narrator: Lowell Bergman Interviewer: Skye Doney Date: 7 July 2023 Transcribed by: Edward Frame Format: Transcribed from Audio Duration: 1 hour, 26 minutes, 2 seconds Lowell Bergman Biography: Lowell Bergman grew up in New York …
Renato Foschi, review of Erica Moretti’s “The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights”
Erica Moretti. The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 330 PP. Paper $22.95. ISBN: 9780299333140. Erica Moretti, an Associate Professor at the Fashion Institute …
Oral History: Linda Newman
Narrator: Linda Newman Interviewer: Troy Reeves (2015), John Tortorice (2018) Dates: 2, 24 April 2015 12, 26 May 2015 16 October 2018 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Duration: 4 hours, 55 minutes, 11 seconds …
Abigail Lewis, review of Annette Becker’s “Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth Century Genocides”
Annette Becker. Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth Century Genocides. Trans Käthe Roth. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 304 pp. Cloth $39.95. ISBN 9780299333201. The central question driving Annette Becker’s newly …
Sonia Gollance, review of Barry Trachtenberg’s “The Holocaust and the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye”
Barry Trachtenberg. The Holocaust & The Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 336 pp. Cloth $37.50. ISBN 9781978825451. The encyclopedia is a genre of the Enlightenment, …
Jack Styler interview, “My Year Teaching in Kazakhstan”
Edward Frame: Let’s begin by asking about your background. Can you say a little about where you come from, how you made your way to UW-Madison, and what motivated you to study History and Political …
Rose Weithaus, “How George L. Mosse’s Scholarship Speaks to the Importance of History Today”
In May of 2021, I was hired as an intern for the George L. Mosse Program. My job was to make existing oral histories, including those recorded with people who knew and worked with George …
George L. Mosse interview with Jost Hermand: 19 May 1992
Professors Carol Poore and Marc Silberman found the following cassette in Professor Jost Hermand’s home after he passed away on 9 October 2021. Recorded on 19 May 1992, Professor Hermand asks George L. Mosse about …