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 …
George L. Mosse
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 …
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» …
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 (8 November 1925 — 5 July 2023) 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 …
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 …
Oral History: Alfonso Alfonsi
Narrator: Alfonso Alfonsi Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 25 March 2018 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Total Length: 2 hours, 9 minutes, 21 seconds Alfonso Alfonsi biography: I have more than 40 years of experience …
Oral History: Paul F. Grendler
Narrator: Paul F. Grendler Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 22 January 2022 Transcribed: Maddy McGlone, Paul Grendler Format: Audio Total Length: 1 hour, 38 minutes Paul F. Grendler biography: Paul F. Grendler was born on …
Oral History: John Rowe
Narrator: John Rowe Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 13 July 2021 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Total Length: 1 hour, 18 minutes John Rowe biography: John W. Rowe is Chairman Emeritus of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, …
Oral History: Stanley Payne
Narrator: Stanley Payne Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 18 December 2018 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Total Length: 2 hours, 22 minutes Stanley Payne biography: Stanley G. Payne taught in five American universities, from 1968 to …
In Memoriam: Tyler Stovall (1954-2021)
Tyler Stovall, Mensch A tribute by Michael Berkowitz Tyler Stovall completed his PhD “The Urbanization of Bobigny, 1900-1939” with Harvey Goldberg in May 1984. Michael Berkowitz completed his PhD “‘Mind, Muscle, and Men’: The Imagination …
Oral History: David Warren Sabean
Narrator: David Warren Sabean Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 9 April 2013 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen (22 May 2013) Format: Audio Total Length: 2 hours, 23 minutes David Warren Sabean biography: David Warren Sabean is Henry …
Oral History: Michael Kaplan
Narrator: Michael Kaplan Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 24, 25, 26 February 2019 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen, Skye Doney Format: Audio Total Length: 2 hours, 55 minutes, 40 seconds Michael Kaplan biography: Michael Kaplan graduated from the …
Oral History: Patrick Hutton
Narrator: Patrick Hutton Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 27 January 2021 Format: Text only via email during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic. Patrick Hutton biography: Patrick H. Hutton is professor of history emeritus at the University of …
Oral History: Vicki Caron
Narrator: Vicki Caron Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 31 March 2017 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Total Time: 38 minutes, 39 seconds Format: Audio Vicki Caron biography: Vicki Caron is a Professor Emerita at Cornell University. Prior to …
Oral History: Michael Berkowitz
Narrator: Michael Berkowitz Interviewer: John Tortorice Videographer: William Tishler Date: 7 November 2018 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen, Matthew Greene, Skye Doney Format: Video Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Length: 1 hour, 42 minutes Michael Berkowitz …
Oral History: David Sorkin
Narrator: David Sorkin Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 8 November 2019 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Length: 2 hours, 5 minutes David Sorkin Biography: David Sorkin studied with George L. Mosse as an undergraduate at UW-Madison. …
Oral History: Alison Klairmont Lingo
Narrator: Alison Klairmont Lingo Interviewer: Skye Doney, Kilian Harrer Date: 15 June 2018 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Total Time: 47 minutes Format: Audio Alison Klairmont Lingo biography: I encountered George L. Mosse when I was a …
Oral History: Robert Nye
Narrator: Robert Nye Interviewer: Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 8 May 2019 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen, Skye Doney Format: Video Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Total Time: 1 hour, 13 minutes Robert Nye biography: I …
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 …