Narrator: Stanley Payne Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 18 December 2018 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Total Length: 2 hours, 22 minutes Stanley Payne biography: Stanley G. Payne taught in five American universities, from 1968 to …
Mosse Program
Oral History: David Warren Sabean
Narrator: David Warren Sabean Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 9 April 2013 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen (22 May 2013) Format: Audio Total Length: 2 hours, 23 minutes David Warren Sabean biography: David Warren Sabean is Henry …
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 Michael Kaplan biography: Michael Kaplan graduated from the …
Oral History: Michael Berkowitz
Narrator: Michael Berkowitz Interviewer: John Tortorice Videographer: William Tishler Date: 7 November 2018 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen, Matthew Greene, Skye Doney Format: Video Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Length: 1 hour, 42 minutes Michael Berkowitz …
Oral History: David Sorkin
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. …
Emily Stewart Long, review of Adam Y. Stern’s “Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy”
Adam Y. Stern. Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 320 PP. Cloth $75.00. ISBN: 9780812252873. “The Empty Tomb” Adam Y. Stern’s Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy offers a collection of vividly argued …
Oral History: Peter Abbott
Narrator: Peter Abbott Interviewer: John Tortorice, Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 5 October 2018 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 38 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Peter Abbott biography: Born May 4, 1947, to …
Oral History: Seymour Drescher
Narrator: Seymour Drescher Interviewer: Anita Hecht, Life History Services Videographer: Anita Hecht Date: 28 October 2010 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes Editing: Charles Glen for Life History Services, LLC Kyle Jenkins, …
Oral History: Rusty Borkin
Narrator: Rusty Borkin Interviewer: John Tortorice, Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 5 October 2018 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 29 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Rusty Borkin biography: Rusty graduated with a BA …
Oral History: Sidney Iwanter
Narrator: Sidney Iwanter Interviewer: John Tortorice, Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 17 August 2017 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 1 hour, 21 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Sidney Iwanter biography: Sidney Iwanter, the …
Oral History: Jane Williams
Narrator: Jane Williams Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 22 May 2014 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Total Time: 48 minutes, 31 seconds **To access the OHMS oral history page for Jane Williams, which allows listeners to search text …
Matthew Unangst review of Marie Muschalek’s “Violence as Usual”
Marie Muschalek, Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019). 270 PP. $49.95. ISBN: 978-1501742859. Marie Muschalek’s Violence as Usual takes as its subject the Landespolizei, …
Sunny Yudkoff: “Mosse, Literature, and the Wisconsin Workshop”
Scholars enter the world of George L. Mosse scholarship through different avenues. Years ago, as a graduate student studying modern Jewish literature, I first encountered Mosse’s work through The Image of Man (1996). At the …
Mosse Comic: “Ideas can be Weapons”
Nick Thorkelson, Dave Wagner, and Paul Buhle have illustrated and written a new comic based on Mosse’s scholarship: “Ideas can be Weapons.” Below we have asked all three to answer a few questions about this …
Kayci Olson Harris, Teaching the Cold War during COVID-19
Since my early days as a history graduate student at UW-Madison, I hoped that one day I would enjoy the opportunity of teaching my very own course. Thanks to the George L. Mosse Program in …
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 …
Abigail Lewis, George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellow, 2019-2020
From October 2019 to March 2020 I had the opportunity to study and live in Jerusalem as a George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (HUJI). At HUJI, I …
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 …
Till van Rahden, Democracy: A Fragile Way of Life
1) What Mood Are We In? Over the past fifteen years, we have moved from complacency and hubris to panic and despair. After the end of the Cold War, liberal democracy was taken for granted. …
Digitizing 1914: Then Came Armageddon
In 2014 the George L. Mosse Program in History and UW-Madison’s Special Collections created an exhibition—1914: Then Came Armageddon—to commemorate the hundred year anniversary since the outbreak of World War I. Guest exhibit co-curators Skye …
Tom McLeish on James Ungureanu’s “Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition”
Review of: James C. Ungureanu Science, Religion and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2019). Book Abstract: The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of …
Teresa Bergen: Lecture- What I’ve Learned from 20 Years of Listening to Interviews
Troy Reeves: Hello? Yes, I’m guessing you can hear me. Because I can hear myself well. Thank you. So, we’re going to start right at noon. But please feel free to get up, get snacks. …
Teresa Bergen: A Breakfast Talk- “For the Oral History Curious”
Skye Doney: Teresa Bergen joins us today from Portland. And she has just published a book. Can I— Bergen: Oh, yeah. Doney: Do you mind if we send this around? Bergen: No, go ahead. Doney: …
Meike Hoffmann: Lecture- The Mosse Art Research Initiative
The Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI): A Beacon of International Provenance Research Thank you all for being here. And thank you especially to the Center for German and European Studies for making this talk possible. …