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, …
History of Gender and Sexuality
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 …
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 …
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 …
Renato Foschi, review of Erica Moretti’s “The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights”
Erica Moretti. The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 330 PP. Paper $22.95. ISBN: 9780299333140. Erica Moretti, an Associate Professor at the Fashion Institute …
Jay Geller, review of Darcy Buerkle, Skye Doney eds., “Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination”
Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney, eds. Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 418 pp. Cloth $79.95. ISBN 9780299342401. The mid-twentieth century produced many exceptional scholars of German history, more …
Emma Kuby, review of Elissa Mailänder’s “Amour, mariage, sexualité. Une histoire intime du nazisme (1930-1950)”
Elissa Mailänder. Amour, mariage, sexualité. Une histoire intime du nazisme (1930-1950). Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2021. 512 PP. Paper €24.00. ISBN: 9782021459241. In 1995, an elderly Austrian woman stood before the photographic evidence of Nazi …
Elisheva Carlebach, Mosse Lecture 03: Seminar- Records and the Forgotten Jewish Women
Gender and the Jewish Archive Lecture 1: The Jewish Archives of Early Modern Europe Lecture 2: Records and the Forgotten Jewish Women Lecture (seminar) 3: Jewish Court Records- Gender and “Jewish Autonomy” The venue …
Christopher Hommerding, review of Stephen Vider’s “The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II”
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 …
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” …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: 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 …
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 …
Conrad Allen, review of Mary Louise Roberts’s “Sheer Misery”
Mary Louise Roberts. Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 208 PP. Cloth $23.00. ISBN: 9780226753287. In Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII, Mary Louise Roberts examines the …
In Memoriam: Katherine Aaslestad (1961-2021)
Katherine Aaslestad (1961-2021) Historian of Modern German and European History Katherine Aaslestad, Professor of Modern German and European History at West Virginia University, passed away at her home on April 24, 2021, at the age …
James C. Ungureanu, review of Moshe Sluhovsky’s “Becoming a New Self”
Moshe Sluhovsky. Becoming a New Self: Practices and Beliefs in Early Modern Catholicism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 232 PP. Cloth $45.00. ISBN: 9780226472850. In the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation, in the fading …
Isobel Ashby review of Dan Royles’s “To Make the Wounded Whole”
Dan Royles. To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 319 PP. Cloth $29.95. ISBN: 9781469661339. Dan Royles’ new volume explores HIV/AIDS activism in …