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”
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 …
Oral History: James Hilb
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 …
Conrad Allen, review of Mary Louise Roberts’s “Sheer Misery”
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 …
Chad S.A. Gibbs, On the Shoulders of Yitzhak Arad: A Review of The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
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 …
Scott Spector, The Novel Corona Virus Crisis as Pedagogical Opportunity: History of the Present
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 …
Chad S.A. Gibbs: George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellow, 2019-2020
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 …
Amos Bitzan: COVID-19 in Jerusalem, 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 …
Sarah Qidwai, Sayyid Ahmad Khan: A Familiar Figure in an Unfamiliar Historical Setting
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 …
David Milne: Lecture- Sigrid Schultz: Investigative Reporter who Predicted World War II
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 …
Chad Gibbs: H.G. Adler by Peter Filkins
Peter Filkins, H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and H.G. Adler. The lives of these three individuals share much in common, though their legacies diverge in …
Dan Hummel: Israel and Evangelicals in the News
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 …
Terrence Peterson: H-Net XPost- Conference Report on Mosse’s Europe
Conference Report: ‘Mosse’s Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality,’ June 6-9th, Berlin This post appeared first on H-German on 26 June 2019. For George L. Mosse, the historical and …
Milan Hauner, Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf: The Critical Edition
A critical edition of Mein Kampf by the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin 2016. Edited by Christian Hartmann, Thomas Vordermayer, Othmar Plöckinger and Roman Töppel, et al. The following is a shortened review essay by …
Philipp Stelzel: The Myth of the Resentful Émigré
Philipp Stelzel, History After Hitler: A Transatlantic Enterprise (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). After World War II many Germans viewed German-Jewish émigrés’ perspectives on German history—perspectives like George L. Mosse’s—with suspicion, as they believed them to …
Chad Gibbs: A Journalist’s Pen and a Survivor’s Spirit
Eva Noack-Mosse’s Last Days of Theresienstadt: A Journalist’s Pen and a Survivor’s Spirit The recent release of Last Days of Theresienstadt posthumously fulfills its author’s long-held wish that her recollections of life inside Theresienstadt would …
Stanley Payne: Walter Laqueur Dies at Ninety-Seven
Walter Laqueur, close friend of and long-time collaborator with George L. Mosse, died in Washington September 30, 2018, ninety-seven years of age. In 1966 Mosse and Laqueur co-founded the Journal of Contemporary History, apparently the …
Robert A. Nye: The Convergence of George L. Mosse and Michel Foucault
Here are a few thoughts about the George L. Mosse’s annotations analyzed by Kilian Harrer and the response to Harrer’s remarks by Paul Breines. First, the annotation project itself is interesting and valuable. The study …
Paul Breines: Reflecting on George Mosse’s Reading of Michel Foucault: A Response, Part II
Following Kilian Harrer’s post, historian Paul Breines, one of Mosse’s PhD students, offers his insight into Mosse’s annotations and interpretations. In my first comment on Kilian Harrer’s blog post we saw how George L. Mosse read …
Paul Breines: Reflecting on George Mosse’s Reading of Michel Foucault: A Response, Part I
Following Kilian Harrer’s post, historian Paul Breines, one of Mosse’s PhD students, offers his insight into Mosse’s annotations and interpretations. Among the readers of Kilian Harrer’s “George L. Mosse Reads Michel Foucault,” will be those …
Abigail Lewis: Teaching European History through Pictures
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 …
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, …