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 …
Mosse Fellows
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 …
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. Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 312 PP. Cloth. $32.95. ISBN: 9781501732799. Emma Kuby’s Political Survivors: The Resistance, the …
Jennifer Gramer, The Art of Collaboration- “Hitler’s Art Dealer”
Meike Hoffmann and Nicola Kuhn. Hitlers Kunsthändler: Hildebrand Gurlitt 1895-1956. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2016. 400 PP. Cloth. 24.95€. ISBN: 9783406690945. In September of 2010, German authorities at the Swiss border stopped an aged man on …
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 …