60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited, Jan 9th-13th 2025, Sapienza Università di Roma and The American Academy in Rome, On-site and Recorded The “60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited” conference, held 9–12 January 2025, at Sapienza Università …
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Tiffany VanWinkoop, Teaching “Women, Sex, and Power in the Mediterranean World (c. 450BCE – 1200 CE)”
When I entered graduate school, I knew that teaching would be a major component of my training; I did not, however, imagine how much teaching would impact my research. I began crafting this course, “Women, …
Julià Gómez Reig, review of George L. Mosse “Los Orígenes Intelectuales del Tercer Reich: Historia de una crisis ideológica”
George L. Mosse. Los Orígenes Intelectuales del Tercer Reich: Historia de una crisis ideológica. Translated by Verónica Puertollano López. Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros, 2023. 496 PP. 27,90 €. ISBN: 9788413846538. The publication of …
CFA: 2025 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 …
Theodore Xing, “The Wisconsin Veterans Museum Oral History Program”
At the Wisconsin Veterans Museum Oral History Program, we aim to document history straight from the mouths of those who lived it. Oral history is a field of study and a method of gathering, preserving, …
Memorial Tributes: Anson Rabinbach (1945-2025)
David Abraham Professor Emeritus, School of Law University of Miami “Sandy and I have known Andy –it’s very hard to use the past tense for a contemporary and compatriot – for nearly half a century …
Margaret Andersen, review of Miranda J. Brady, “Mother Trouble: Mediations of White Maternal Angst after Second Wave Feminism”
Miranda J. Brady, Mother Trouble: Mediations of White Maternal Angst after Second Wave Feminism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. 148 PP. $40.00 Cloth. ISBN: 9781487556945. Media portrayals of “maternal angst” are everywhere. The image …
In Memoriam: Anson Rabinbach (1945-2025) by Stefanos Geroulanos
In May 2008, we had dinner somewhere on Sixth Avenue. I can’t remember what we ate, nor what we said: but clear as day in my mind is Andy’s excitement, which culminated in a massive …
Terrence Peterson, “Conference Report, 60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited”
In 1963, historian George L. Mosse brought a group of interdisciplinary scholars together at Stanford University to grapple with a vital question: What is fascism? Nearly two decades after the Second World War, scholarship on …
Oral History: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Richard Kehrberg
Narrators: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Richard Kehrberg Interviewer: Skye Doney Date: 22 October 2024 Format: Audio Duration: 1 hour, 26 minutes, 14 seconds Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Biography: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg grew up in the suburbs of Denver, before going …
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 …