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 …
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Itamar Ben Ami, review of Adi Armon’s “Leo Strauss Between Weimar and America”
Adi Armon, Leo Strauss Between Weimar and America. Translated by Michelle Bubis. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Cloth $60.26. 235 PP. ISBN 9783030243890. Is there a Straussian Marxism? On Adi Armon’s Leo Strauss Between Weimar …
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 …
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 …
Spencer J. Weinreich review of Tamar Herzig’s “A Convert’s Tale”
Tamar Herzig. A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. 400 pp. ISBN 9780674237537. In a story told with all the elegance of Renaissance goldsmithery, the single …
Grace Allen, Exploring the Power and Limits of Victim-Witness Testimony in Emma Kuby’s “Political Survivors”
Emma Kuby’s Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945 tells the institutional history of the International Commission against the Concentration Camp Regime (CICRC), a short-lived organization assembled …
Jennifer Gramer, The Art of Collaboration- “Hitler’s Art Dealer”
In September of 2010, German authorities at the Swiss border stopped an aged man on his way back into Germany. The man, nearly 80 years old and bent with age, would have seemed harmless had …
Kayci Olson Harris, Teaching the Cold War during COVID-19
Since my early days as a history graduate student at UW-Madison, I hoped that one day I would enjoy the opportunity of teaching my very own course. Thanks to the George L. Mosse Program in …