Stephen Vider. The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 304 PP. Paper $29.00. ISBN: 9780226808369. Just about twenty years ago I …
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Susanna Cassisa, review of W. Jake Newsome’s “Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust”
W. Jake Newsome. Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 286 PP. Cloth $34.95. ISBN: 9781501765155. Since its appearance on the iconic “Silence = Death” …
Haley E. R. Cooper, “Playing with the Past: The Ghost of Houdini Lives in a Texas Escape Room”
Locked in a 10×10 cubicle in the basement of an office building, a zombie on a chain chased me while my friends solved puzzles to get us out. When we escaped with seven seconds to …
Oral History: Laurence Lerner
Narrator: Laurence Lerner Interviewer: Skye Doney Date: August 10, 2022 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Total Length: 1 hour, 39 minutes, 57 seconds Begin Track 1, August 10, 2022 Doney: Yeah, so …
Maddy McGlone, “Archiving the Everyday and the Historian’s Craft”
My work with the George L. Mosse Program began in April 2021 at the UW Archives, working for the Oral History Program. The Mosse internship has a unique structure – it lends students to departments …
Rebecca Carter-Chand, review of Monique Scheer’s “Enthusiasm: Emotional Practices of Conviction in Modern Germany”
Monique Scheer. Enthusiasm: Emotional Practices of Conviction in Modern Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 256 PP. Cloth $100.00. ISBN: 9780198863595. Over the past decade Monique Scheer has been at the forefront of applying the …
Donatello Aramini, Lecture- “Nationalists and Fascists in Interwar Italy: A Study on Right-Wing Radicalism and the Processes of Hybridization and Fascistization”
The following talk was given at Memorial Library on Thursday, 4 August 2022. For an overview of the afternoon read Libby Theune’s “Summer Scholars Share Insights on Interwar European Politics.” The call for applications for …
Tom Eshed, review of Jeffrey Herf’s “Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949”
Jeffrey Herf. Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 450 PP. Cloth $39.99. ISBN: 9781316517963. Jeffrey Herf’s Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition …
Stefania Ragaù, Lecture- “Nationalist Humanism, ‘Nationalhumanismus,’ after George L. Mosse”
The following talk was given at Memorial Library on Thursday, 4 August 2022. For an overview of the afternoon read Libby Theune’s “Summer Scholars Share Insights on Interwar European Politics.” The call for applications for …
Braden Russell, review of Javier Samper Vendrell’s “The Seduction of Youth”
Javier Samper Vendrell. The Seduction of Youth: Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 261 PP. Paper $35.95. ISBN 9781487525033. In popular and academic discourses, Weimar Berlin …
Austin Clements, review of Emilio Gentile’s “Fascination with the Persecutor”
Emilio Gentile. Fascination with the Persecutor: George L. Mosse and the Catastrophe of Modern Man. Trans. John and Anne Tedeschi. Foreword Stanley Payne. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 224 PP. Cloth $39.95. ISBN: 9780299334307. …
Dagmar Herzog, “In Exile in the Promised Land,” a review of “Queer Jewish Lives”
Andreas Kraß, Moshe Sluhovsky, and Yuval Yonay, eds., Queer Jewish Lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2022. 332 PP. Paper $37.05. ISBN 9783837653328. This astonishing, groundbreaking anthology offers a panoply of unexpected …
Stefania Ragaù, review of “La contemporaneità del passato. Studi in onore di Renato Moro”
Donatello Aramini, Giovanni M. Ceci, Laura Ciglioni, Maurizio Zinni, eds. La contemporaneità del passato. Studi in onore di Renato Moro. Roma: Carocci editore, 2021. 399 PP. Cloth € 44.00. ISBN 9788829013234. «La contemporaneità del passato» …
Jack Styler, “My Year with the UW-Madison Oral History Program”
Over the last year, I worked as a George L. Mosse Intern in Digital and European History. My work focused on assisting the Oral History Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives & Records Management. …
Krzysztof Borowski, review of Kathryn Ciancia’s “On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World”
Kathryn Ciancia. On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Cloth $74.00. 368 PP. ISBN: 9780190067458. As a country made up of “three unequal halves,” to quote Stefan …
Oral History: William F. “Jack” Fry
Narrator: William F. “Jack” Fry (1921-2011) Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 12 May and 6 August 2008 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio (2 files) Total Length: 4 hours, 5 minutes, 24 seconds William F. “Jack” …
Robert Corban, review of Lorenzo Benadusi’s “Respectability and Violence: Military Values, Masculine Honor, and Italy’s Road to Mass Death”
Lorenzo Benadusi. Respectability and Violence: Military Values, Masculine Honor, and Italy’s Road to Mass Death. Translated by Zakiya Hanafi. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 416 PP. $79.95. ISBN 9780299333300. Lorenzo Benadusi is an Associate …
Anastasia Bruss, “Trials, Tribulations, and the Community of Badgers – UW-Madison Campus History as Told through the Oral History Program”
When I first accepted an internship with the George L. Mosse Program, I most hoped that I would be able to expand and deepen my passion for history. While working with the Mosse Program, I …
Oral History: Marjorie Kreilick
Narrator: Marjorie Kreilick Interviewers: Robert Lange, John Tortorice Date: 7, 8, 9, 10 April 2008 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio (4 files) Total Length: 8 hours, 33 minutes Marjorie Kreilick Biography: Marjorie Kreilick, born …
Oral History: Birutė Ciplijauskaitė
Narrator: Birutė Ciplijauskaitė Interviewer: Laura Smail, John Tortorice Dates: 3 December 1984, 27 December 2012, 6 February 2013 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Total Length: 4 hours, 10 minutes Birutė Ciplijauskaitė biography: Professor Birutė …
Mosseaner Presentations at the Spring 2022 History Department Board of Visitors Meetings
From 7-8 April 2022, the UW-Madison Department of History Board of Visitors convened at Memorial Union. Established in 2015, the Board is comprised of History alumni/ae who serve as volunteer ambassadors for the Department to …
Annette Becker and Mary Louise Roberts, “Messengers of Disaster”
Mary Louise Roberts: It’s a great honor to have Annette Becker here today. She’s a professor of contemporary history at Paris Nanterre La Défense and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She …
Jeremy Best, review of Jason Crouthamel’s “Trauma, Religion and Spirituality in Germany during the First World War”
Jason Crouthamel. Trauma, Religion and Spirituality in Germany during the First World War. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021. Cloth $103.50. 272 PP. ISBN: 9781350083707. “There are no atheists in foxholes,” so they say. The aphorism states …
X-Post: Jack Styler, “Those ‘Confrontational Days’: Remembering Madison’s LBGTQ+ Early Activists through Oral Histories”
This article originally appeared on the UW Archives Tumblr, “Found in the University Archives!,” (30 March 2022). *Be advised that the following clip contains sexual language. Also, the clip below and oral histories referenced below …
Lawrence L. Langer, review of Anna Hájková’s “The Last Ghetto”
Anna Hájková. The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Cloth $34.95. 376 PP. ISBN: 9780190051778. Anna Hájková’s The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt is an essential addition to …