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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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Terrence Peterson: H-Net XPost- Conference Report on Mosse’s Europe

Posted on July 26, 2019

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 …

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Milan Hauner, Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf: The Critical Edition

Posted on April 19, 2019

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 …

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Philipp Stelzel, The Myth of the Resentful Émigré

Posted on January 11, 2019

Philipp Stelzel. History After Hitler: A Transatlantic Enterprise. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 248 PP. Cloth. $69.95. ISBN: 9780812250657. After World War II many Germans viewed German-Jewish émigrés’ perspectives on German history—perspectives like George …

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Chad Gibbs, “Eva Noack-Mosse: A Journalist’s Pen and a Survivor’s Spirit”

Posted on January 2, 2019

Eva Noack-Mosse. Last Days of Theresienstadt. Trans. Skye Doney and Birutė Ciplijauskaitė. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. 200 PP. Cloth. $24.95. ISBN: 9780299319601. The recent release of Last Days of Theresienstadt posthumously fulfills its …

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Stanley Payne: Walter Laqueur Dies at Ninety-Seven

Posted on December 10, 2018

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 …

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Robert A. Nye: The Convergence of George L. Mosse and Michel Foucault

Posted on October 9, 2018

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 …

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Paul Breines: Reflecting on George Mosse’s Reading of Michel Foucault: A Response, Part II

Posted on October 2, 2018

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 …

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Paul Breines: Reflecting on George Mosse’s Reading of Michel Foucault: A Response, Part I

Posted on September 24, 2018

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 …

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Abigail Lewis: Teaching European History through Pictures

Posted on June 8, 2018

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, George L. Mosse’s “Image of Man” in the #MeToo Moment

Posted on February 14, 2018

George L. Mosse. Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 240 PP. Cloth. $69.00. ISBN: 9780195126600. George L. Mosse concludes The Image of Man with a relatively brief reflection …

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