It has been a full year since we lost Jen Gramer. It has been a full year without Jen’s warm heart, sharp sense of humor, and vivaciousness. One year later, a line from her obituary …
Mosse Fellows
Collin Bernard, Teaching European Urban History
As a George L. Mosse Teaching Fellow, I crafted and taught a history course entitled “Europe’s Urban Age: From 1900 to Today” in the Spring 2024 semester. Over fourteen weeks, seventeen UW-Madison undergraduates and I …
Eliana Chavkin, Lecture: “A Paradox of Memory: Memorial Union and UW-Madison’s War Dead”
Thank you all for being here. I’m the director of the George L. Mosse Program in History here at UW Madison at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This is Libby’s and I’s, I believe fourth—is …
Interview: Emma DeLaney Strenski, former Mosse Program intern
On Wednesday, 21 February, Mosse Program Project Assistant Edward Frame caught up with UW-Madison graduate Emma DeLaney Strenski. Strenski , who was the Mosse Program’s inaugural Undergraduate Intern in European and Digital History, is currently …
Jack Styler interview, “My Year Teaching in Kazakhstan”
Edward Frame: Let’s begin by asking about your background. Can you say a little about where you come from, how you made your way to UW-Madison, and what motivated you to study History and Political …
Rose Weithaus, “How George L. Mosse’s Scholarship Speaks to the Importance of History Today”
In May of 2021, I was hired as an intern for the George L. Mosse Program. My job was to make existing oral histories, including those recorded with people who knew and worked with George …
Alex Scheepens, George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellow, 2022-2023
Upon completing my preliminary examinations in June 2022, I was privileged to receive a George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellowship to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which enabled me to travel to Israel, live and …
George M. Marsden, review of Daniel G. Hummel’s “The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism”
Daniel G. Hummel. The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2023. 400 pp. Cloth $29.99. ISBN: 9780802879226. During the …
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 …
Lecture: Norman Domeier, “World Domination and Genocide: The ‘Lochner Version’ of Hitler’s Speech on 22 August 1939, a Key Document of National Socialist Ideology”
Attendees at the event received a hard copy of the “Lochner Version” of Hitler’s speech for reference through the lecture: **** Hitler’s Speech to the Leading Wehrmacht Generals on the Obersalzberg. 22 August 1939 (“Lochner …
Daniel G. Hummel, review of Anne Perez’s “Understanding Zionism: History and Perspectives”
Anne Perez. Understanding Zionism: History and Perspectives. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2023. 277 PP. Paper $27.00. ISBN: 9781506481166. A small thought experiment: a non-academic friend texts you, “What book would you recommend as an introduction to …
Yuan Chang, review of Nicolas Berg’s “The Holocaust and the West German Historians: Historical Interpretation and Autobiographical Memory”
Nicolas Berg. The Holocaust and the West German Historians: Historical Interpretation and Autobiographical Memory. Trans. and ed. Joel Golb. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. 346 PP. Paper $34.95. ISBN: 9780299300845. The Holocaust and the …
ANN: Then Came Armageddon – A Digital Exhibit
The struggle, grit, pain, and reality of life during the Great War – World War I – are brought into a new light as a unique online exhibition is unveiled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. …
Oral History: Renato Moro
Narrator: Renato Moro Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 27 March 2018 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Total Length: 1 hour, 40 minutes Renato Moro biography: Renato Moro is a Full Professor of Contemporary History at Roma …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …