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Matthew Unangst review of Marie Muschalek’s “Violence as Usual”

Posted on October 14, 2020

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, …

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Sunny Yudkoff: “Mosse, Literature, and the Wisconsin Workshop”

Posted on October 7, 2020

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 …

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Mosse Comic: “Ideas can be Weapons”

Posted on September 24, 2020

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 …

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Kayci Olson Harris, Teaching the Cold War during COVID-19

Posted on July 21, 2020

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 …

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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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Abigail Lewis, George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellow, 2019-2020

Posted on May 19, 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 …

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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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Till van Rahden, Democracy: A Fragile Way of Life

Posted on May 4, 2020

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. …

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Digitizing 1914: Then Came Armageddon

Posted on April 21, 2020

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 …

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Tom McLeish on James Ungureanu’s “Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition”

Posted on April 14, 2020

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 …

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Teresa Bergen: Lecture- What I’ve Learned from 20 Years of Listening to Interviews

Posted on April 7, 2020

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. …

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Teresa Bergen: A Breakfast Talk- “For the Oral History Curious”

Posted on March 31, 2020

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: …

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Meike Hoffmann: Lecture- The Mosse Art Research Initiative

Posted on March 24, 2020

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. …

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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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Mendel Kranz on Gordon’s “Toward Nationalism’s End”

Posted on February 17, 2020

Adi Gordon, Toward Nationalism’s End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2017). It is surely no easy feat to write the intellectual biography of someone whose work traversed as many …

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Claire Hitter: Memories of Memorial Union- The Preservation of Campus History at University Archives

Posted on November 4, 2019

This past spring and summer, my internship with the George L. Mosse Program in History took me to UW Madison’s very own University Archives housed at Steenbock Library. During my time in the warm and …

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Nick O’Connell: The Fry Collection- Life in Early Twentieth-Century Italy

Posted on October 7, 2019

William F. “Jack” Fry was a University of Wisconsin–Madison physics professor from 1952 to 1998. He also had an incredible passion for Italian history. Fry collected thousands of Italian manuscripts over the years and donated …

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Chad Gibbs: H.G. Adler by Peter Filkins

Posted on September 24, 2019

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 …

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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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Kenny Kolander: Dan Hummel’s “Covenant Brothers”

Posted on July 10, 2019

Daniel G. Hummel, Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).* Jewish and Christian Zionists each lay claim to a special covenant with God. But the two groups have managed to …

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Nadine Zimmerli: Teaching German History Through Novels

Posted on July 1, 2019

Fifteen years ago, I started my academic career as a George L. Mosse Distinguished Graduate Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Throughout graduate school, I pursued two career tracks—one oriented toward the professoriate, doing all …

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