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Quinn Slobodian, review of Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley, eds. “Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History”
Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley, eds. Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 464 PP. $48.00 Cloth. ISBN 9780226481623. In a 1987 book …
Joe Perry, review of Natalie Scholz, “Redeeming Objects: A West German Mythology”
Natalie Scholz. Redeeming Objects: A West German Mythology. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 324 PP. $79.95 Cloth. ISBN: 9780299344306. The rise of the Federal Republic of Germany out of the rubble of the …
Sara Paris, “Teaching H223: Women, Spirituality, Law, and Medicine (1100-1500)”
Throughout my years in graduate school my teaching experience in History was primarily focused on leading small discussion sections. This classroom time greatly increased my teaching confidence and my understanding of how to engage with …
Jim Coons, “Here Are the People: The Scholarly Empathy of Laird Boswell, Suzanne Desan, and Mary Louise Roberts”
Conference program here. Photos from the event. Laird Boswell, Suzanne Desan, and Mary Louise Roberts have always placed people at the center of their scholarship. Speakers returned to this focus throughout the conference commemorating the …
Alex Scheepens, “George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellowship (2023-2024)”
As part of my dissertation on Dutch Jewry in the Shoah, I was privileged and fortunate enough to receive the George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellowship to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This prestigious award …
Ludwig Decke, Conference Report: “Berlin Art Patrons and Their Country Houses as Places for the Private Display of Collections”
Sammlerinnen und Sammler des Berliner Mäzenatentums und ihre Landhäuser als Orte der privaten Kunstpräsentation Kunsthistorisches Institut der FU-Berlin Koserstr. 20 14195 Berlin Raum A 163, 27. September 2024 Sponsored by: Freie Universität zu Berlin Deutsche …
Hilary Handin, review of Renée Poznanski, “Propaganda and Persecution The French Resistance and the ‘Jewish Question’”
Renée Poznanski. Propaganda and Persecution: The French Resistance and the “Jewish Problem.” Translated by Lenn J. Schramm. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2024. 632 PP. $79.95 Cloth. ISBN 9780299345600. After a Gestapo agent orders …
Abigail Lewis, “In Memoriam: Remembering Jen Gramer (1988-2023)”
It has been a full year since we lost Jen Gramer. It has been a full year without Jen’s warm heart, sharp sense of humor, and vivaciousness. One year later, a line from her obituary …
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’s “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. …