With support from the George L. Mosse Program in History, I had the privilege of lecturing a history course entitled “Picturing History.” The lectureship allows for graduate students to craft a lecture course completely of …
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Jim Coons: Mosse’s Image of Man in the #MeToo Moment
George Mosse concludes The Image of Man with a relatively brief reflection on the fortunes of the masculine stereotype since 1945. It is the shortest chapter of the book, by an odd kind of necessity: …
Jim Coons: Mosse’s Image of Man- Fluid Masculinities
The discipline of History is highly concerned with change over time. Though there are certainly examples of long-term stability in the past – farming practices, economic structures, family dynamics, etc. – historians usually look for …
National Jewish Book Awards Received by Two Mosse Visiting Professors
Congratulations to Professor Gideon Reuveni (George L. Mosse, Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 2004) and Professor Chad Alan Goldberg (George L. Mosse Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, 2008). Their recent publications have been recognized by the …
Jim Coons: Mosse’s Image of Man- Invisible History
George Mosse’s Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity traces the creation, maturation, and various erosions or perversions of the dominant Western ideal of manhood across the 19th and 20th centuries. This modern ideal, …
Javier Samper Vendrell: Review of Ponzio’s Shaping the New Man
Shaping the New Man: Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany Alessio Ponzio Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. 316 pp. Alessio Ponzio’s Shaping the New Man is a valuable contribution to the …
Terrence Peterson: Reading Mosse in an Age of Populism
For George L. Mosse, the past was always contemporary. Historians may search for meaning in the past, but that search is – and should be, Mosse would add – tied to the ‘vital problems’ historians …
Jason Wolfe on Dan Diner’s Cataclysms: Application and Function
The final chapter of Cataclysms, “Dualisms: Decolonization and the Cold War,” addresses Dan Diner’s “universal civil war” as it expanded geographically after 1945, becoming the Cold War. The section begins with a return to the …
Jason Wolfe on Dan Diner’s Cataclysms: Genocide and Memory
The chapter from which this translation of Cataclysms gains its English title is also the one rooted in Professor Dan Diner’s expertise as a Holocaust scholar. Chapter Four, “Cataclysms: Genocide and Memory,” focuses on ethnicity, …
Jason Wolfe on Dan Diner’s Cataclysms: Outside Looking In
Dan Diner, Catacylsms: A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008). Anyone studying the twentieth century will have little trouble identifying certain key developments: the Russian Revolution; the …