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 …
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Will Kirsch, review of Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, ed. “Did it Happen Here? Perspectives on Fascism and America”
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, ed. Did it Happen Here? Perspectives on Fascism and America. New York: W.W. Norton, 2024. 384 PP. $28.99 Cloth. ISBN 9781324074397. You would be hard pressed to avoid media coverage of the upcoming …
Maxwell Greenberg, review of David Austin Walsh “Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right”
David Austin Walsh. Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. 320 PP. Paper $35.00. ISBN: 9780300260977. Over the last few years, a growing body of scholarship …
Maddy McDonald, “On Serving as the Undergraduate Intern in European and Digital History”
In my final year as an undergraduate student at UW, I served as the undergraduate intern in European and Digital History at the George L. Mosse Program in History. My primary focus was on a …
Netta Green, review of Miranda Sachs’s “An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris”
Miranda Sachs. An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 256 PP. $83.00 Cloth. ISBN 9780197638453. Miranda Sachs’ latest monograph, An Age to Work, represents a significant contribution …
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 …
Interview: Doug E. L. Haynes, “100 Sketches of George L. Mosse Humanities”
On Friday, 23 February, the Mosse Program interviewed UW-Madison graduate and local artist Doug E. L. Haynes. Haynes is completing a book “One Hundred Sketches of the George L. Mosse Humanities Building.” We got an …
Katherine Alcauskas, “New Lachmann-Mosse Family Artwork Donations to the UW-Madison Chazen Museum of Art”
The Chazen Museum of Art recently added to its collection seventeen artworks descended within the Lachmann-Mosse family and generously donated by John Tortorice. Altogether, they demonstrate the eclectic collection that the wealthy and influential German-Jewish …
Edward Frame, review of of Samuel Moyn’s “Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times”
Samuel Moyn. Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 240 PP. Paper $27.50. ISBN: 9780300266214. The argument of Samuel Moyn’s new book, Liberalism Against …
Ashley Barnes-Gilbert, review of Margot Canaday’s “Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America”
Margot Canaday. Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2023. 312 PP. Paper $39.95. ISBN: 9780691205953. For those of us who study the history of sexuality, Margot Canaday’s …
Oral History: Lowell Bergman
Narrator: Lowell Bergman Interviewer: Skye Doney Date: 7 July 2023 Transcribed by: Edward Frame Format: Transcribed from Audio Duration: 1 hour, 26 minutes, 2 seconds **To access the OHMS oral history page for Lowell Bergman, …
Oral History: Linda Newman
Narrator: Linda Newman Interviewer: Troy Reeves (2015), John Tortorice (2018) Dates: 2, 24 April 2015 12, 26 May 2015 16 October 2018 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Duration: 4 hours, 55 minutes, 11 seconds …
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 …
Oral History: Christopher Hexter
Narrator: Christopher Hexter Interviewer: Skye Doney Date: 15 June 2018 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Duration: 25 minutes, 59 seconds **To access the OHMS oral history page for Christopher Hexter, which allows listeners to …
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. …
Oral History: William F. “Jack” Fry
Narrator: William F. “Jack” Fry (1921-2011) Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 12 May and 6 August 2008 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio (2 files) Total Length: 4 hours, 5 minutes, 24 seconds William F. “Jack” …
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: 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 …
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 …
Jeremy Best, review of Jason Crouthamel’s “Trauma, Religion and Spirituality in Germany during the First World War”
Jason Crouthamel. Trauma, Religion and Spirituality in Germany during the First World War. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021. Cloth $103.50. 272 PP. ISBN: 9781350083707. “There are no atheists in foxholes,” so they say. The aphorism states …
Alex Scheepens, review of David Sorkin’s “Jewish Emancipation”
David Sorkin. Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 528 PP. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 9780691164946. We often think of Jewish emancipation as a linear, one-way process by which Jews across Europe …
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: 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 **To access the OHMS oral history page for …
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 …