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Oral History: Christopher Hexter

Posted on December 28, 2022

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 …

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Jack Styler, “My Year with the UW-Madison Oral History Program”

Posted on June 16, 2022

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. …

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Oral History: William F. “Jack” Fry

Posted on June 3, 2022

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” …

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Anastasia Bruss, “Trials, Tribulations, and the Community of Badgers – UW-Madison Campus History as Told through the Oral History Program”

Posted on May 30, 2022

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 …

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Oral History: Birutė Ciplijauskaitė

Posted on May 18, 2022

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 …

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Annette Becker and Mary Louise Roberts, “Messengers of Disaster”

Posted on May 2, 2022

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 …

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Jeremy Best, review of Jason Crouthamel’s “Trauma, Religion and Spirituality in Germany during the First World War”

Posted on April 20, 2022

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 …

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Alex Scheepens, review of David Sorkin’s “Jewish Emancipation”

Posted on January 31, 2022

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 …

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In Memoriam: Tyler Stovall (1954-2021)

Posted on January 3, 2022

­­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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Oral History: Michael Kaplan

Posted on October 25, 2021

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 Michael Kaplan biography: Michael Kaplan graduated from the …

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Oral History: Patrick Hutton

Posted on October 21, 2021

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 …

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Oral History: Vicki Caron

Posted on October 6, 2021

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 …

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Oral History: David Sorkin

Posted on September 30, 2021

Narrator: David Sorkin Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 8 November 2019 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Length: 2 hours, 5 minutes David Sorkin Biography: David Sorkin studied with George L. Mosse as an undergraduate at UW-Madison. …

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Oral History: Lucy Cooper

Posted on August 17, 2021

  Narrator: Lucy Cooper Interviewer: John Tortorice, Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 5 October 2018 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 26 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Lucy Cooper Biography: I came out to …

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Athan Biss, review of Francine Hirsch’s “Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg”

Posted on August 9, 2021

Francine Hirsch. Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 560 PP. Cloth $34.95. ISBN: 9780199377930. In the immediate aftermath of the Second World …

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Oral History: James Hilb

Posted on August 2, 2021

Narrator: James Hilb Interviewer: Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 8 March 2019 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 1 hour, 16 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop James Hilb biography: Jim Hilb graduated with a …

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Conrad Allen, review of Mary Louise Roberts’s “Sheer Misery”

Posted on June 1, 2021

Mary Louise Roberts. Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 208 PP. Cloth $23.00. ISBN: 9780226753287. In Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII, Mary Louise Roberts examines the …

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Chad S.A. Gibbs, On the Shoulders of Yitzhak Arad: A Review of The Operation Reinhard Death Camps

Posted on July 14, 2020

On the Shoulders of Yitzhak Arad: A Review of The Operation Reinhard Death Camps and Paths for Future Research on Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka The three extermination camps of Aktion Reinhard, or Operation Reinhard, sit …

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Scott Spector, The Novel Corona Virus Crisis as Pedagogical Opportunity: History of the Present

Posted on May 27, 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis hit the United States and our students were sent home to complete the semester remotely, my colleague and I were teaching an introductory lecture course called “History of the Present.” The …

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Chad S.A. Gibbs: George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellow, 2019-2020

Posted on May 11, 2020

A Holocaust memoir in the form of a musical. A living witness. Historical connections to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. And hundreds of previously unknown primary sources left behind by survivors of Treblinka. These are …

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Amos Bitzan: COVID-19 in Jerusalem, March 18, 2020

Posted on March 18, 2020

I hope that in future posts I will be able to document many of my wonderful experiences in Jerusalem and at the Hebrew University this academic year. This first post, however, will focus on less …

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Sarah Qidwai, Sayyid Ahmad Khan: A Familiar Figure in an Unfamiliar Historical Setting

Posted on March 11, 2020

As a historical figure, Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) is frequently characterized as a leader of Muslim nationalism in India and a reformer of both Islam and education.[1] Throughout his life he established several educational …

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David Milne: Lecture- Sigrid Schultz: Investigative Reporter who Predicted World War II

Posted on March 4, 2020

  N.B. Please do not quote without the author’s permission. This is the transcript of a delivered lecture, not a finished paper or journal article. Skye Doney: I want to thank you all for coming …

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Chad Gibbs, review of Peter Filkins’s “H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds”

Posted on September 24, 2019

Peter Filkins. H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 424 PP. Cloth. $33.95. ISBN: 9780190222383. Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and H.G. Adler. The lives of these three individuals share much …

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Dan Hummel: Israel and Evangelicals in the News

Posted on September 11, 2019

Israel has been in the American news a lot recently. The sum of all of this coverage—from the Israeli government’s drama with members of “The Squad” to President Trump’s charges of disloyalty toward Jewish Democratic …

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