Narrator: Robert Nye Interviewer: Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 8 May 2019 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen, Skye Doney Total Time: 1 hour, 13 minutes Format: Video Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Robert Nye biography: I …
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David Harrisville, review of Moritz Föllmer’s “Culture in the Third Reich”
Moritz Föllmer. Culture in the Third Reich. Trans. Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharp. Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 PP. Cloth $25.95. ISBN: 9780198814603. The birthplace of Beethoven and Goethe, Germany has long been seen by …
Oral History: Steven E. Aschheim
28 November 2014: 8 April 2014: Narrator: Steven E. Aschheim Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 8 April 2014, 28 November 2014 Transcribed: Pop Up Archive, Melissa Schultz Total Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes (over two sessions) …
Oral History: Peter Abbott
Narrator: Peter Abbott Interviewer: John Tortorice, Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 5 October 2018 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 38 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Peter Abbott biography: Born May 4, 1947, to …
Oral History: Seymour Drescher
Narrator: Seymour Drescher Interviewer: Anita Hecht, Life History Services Videographer: Anita Hecht Date: 28 October 2010 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes Editing: Charles Glen for Life History Services, LLC Kyle Jenkins, …
Oral History: Lucy Cooper
Narrator: Lucy Cooper Interviewer: John Tortorice, Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 5 October 2018 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 26 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Lucy Cooper Biography: I came out to …
Oral History: Rusty Borkin
Narrator: Rusty Borkin Interviewer: John Tortorice, Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 5 October 2018 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 29 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Rusty Borkin biography: Rusty graduated with a BA …
Oral History: Sidney Iwanter
Narrator: Sidney Iwanter Interviewer: John Tortorice, Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 17 August 2017 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 1 hour, 21 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Sidney Iwanter biography: Sidney Iwanter, the …
Oral History: James Hilb
Narrator: James Hilb Interviewer: Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 8 March 2019 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 1 hour, 16 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop James Hilb biography: Jim Hilb graduated with a …
Oral History: Jane Williams
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 …
Oral History: Christopher Browning
Narrator: Christopher R. Browning Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 2 September 2020 Format: Text only via email during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic. Christopher R. Browning biography: Christopher R. Browning is Professor Emeritus of History at the …
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: 5 November 2019 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Total time: 1 hour, 44 minutes, 30 seconds Joan Wallach Scott biography: Joan Wallach Scott is Professor Emerita at the Institute …
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]. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Teresa Bergen: Lecture- What I’ve Learned from 20 Years of Listening to Interviews
Troy Reeves: Hello? Yes, I’m guessing you can hear me. Because I can hear myself well. Thank you. So, we’re going to start right at noon. But please feel free to get up, get snacks. …
Meike Hoffmann: Lecture- The Mosse Art Research Initiative
The Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI): A Beacon of International Provenance Research Thank you all for being here. And thank you especially to the Center for German and European Studies for making this talk possible. …
Claire Hitter: Memories of Memorial Union- The Preservation of Campus History at University Archives
This past spring and summer, my internship with the George L. Mosse Program in History took me to UW Madison’s very own University Archives housed at Steenbock Library. During my time in the warm and …
Terrence Peterson: H-Net XPost- Conference Report on Mosse’s Europe
Conference Report: ‘Mosse’s Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality,’ June 6-9th, Berlin This post appeared first on H-German on 26 June 2019. For George L. Mosse, the historical and …
Nadine Zimmerli: Teaching German History Through Novels
Fifteen years ago, I started my academic career as a George L. Mosse Distinguished Graduate Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Throughout graduate school, I pursued two career tracks—one oriented toward the professoriate, doing all …
Philipp Stelzel: Lecture- The Myth of the Resentful Émigré
Skye Doney: So thank you all for being here on this very nice day. I, I know it’s a difficult choice, when the sun finally returns. So, Philipp Stelzel. He comes to us today from …
Kilian Harrer: The French Revolution and the Contingencies of Citizenship- On Katie Jarvis’s Politics in the Marketplace
No one understood better than George L. Mosse that “citizenship” is a tricky notion, a site where legal categorizations, identities, and individual or familial strategies intermingle in myriad ways. Mosse lost his own primary citizenship …