In May of 2021, I was hired as an intern for the George L. Mosse Program. My job was to make existing oral histories, including those recorded with people who knew and worked with George …
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George L. Mosse interview with Jost Hermand: 19 May 1992
Professors Carol Poore and Marc Silberman found the following cassette in Professor Jost Hermand’s home after he passed away on 9 October 2021. Recorded on 19 May 1992, Professor Hermand asks George L. Mosse about …
Jay Geller, review of Darcy Buerkle, Skye Doney eds., “Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination”
Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney, eds. Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 418 pp. Cloth $79.95. ISBN 9780299342401. The mid-twentieth century produced many exceptional scholars of German history, more …
Daniel G. Hummel, review of Anne Perez’s “Understanding Zionism: History and Perspectives”
Anne Perez. Understanding Zionism: History and Perspectives. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2023. 277 PP. Paper $27.00. ISBN: 9781506481166. A small thought experiment: a non-academic friend texts you, “What book would you recommend as an introduction to …
Inaugural Columbia University Mosse Lecture: Steven E. Aschheim, “George L. Mosse: Historian of Fascism, Masculinity, and Nationalism”
27 April 2023 Steven E. Aschheim, “George L. Mosse: Historian of Fascism, Masculinity, and Nationalism” Claudia Breger: My name is Claudia Breger, I’m the chair of the department of Germanic studies and languages here. And …
Stanley Payne, review of Emilio Gentile’s “Storia del fascismo” and “Totalitarismo 100”
Emilio Gentile. Storia del fascismo. Bari-Rome: Laterza, 2022. xxi, 1350 PP. Cloth 38€. ISBN: 9788858148914. Emilio Gentile. Totalitarismo 100. Ritorno alla storia. Rome: Salerno Editrice, 2023. 204 PP. Cloth 21€. ISBN: 9788869737794. Fascism died in …
Oral History: Alfred Kelly
Narrator: Alfred Kelly Interviewer: Skye Doney Date: 16 December 2022 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Total Time: 2 hours, 13 minutes, 35 Seconds Alfred Kelly Biography: Alfred Kelly is the Edgar B. Graves Professor of …
ANN: Then Came Armageddon – A Digital Exhibit
The struggle, grit, pain, and reality of life during the Great War – World War I – are brought into a new light as a unique online exhibition is unveiled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. …
Oral History: Lawrence Baron
Narrator: Lawrence Baron Interviewer: Skye Doney Date: 20 December 2022 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Total Time: 1 hour, 57 minutes, 13 seconds Lawrence Baron Biography: Professor Emeritus Lawrence Baron held the Nasatir Chair of Modern …
Elisheva Carlebach, Mosse Lecture 03: Seminar- Records and the Forgotten Jewish Women
Gender and the Jewish Archive Lecture 1: The Jewish Archives of Early Modern Europe Lecture 2: Records and the Forgotten Jewish Women Lecture (seminar) 3: Jewish Court Records- Gender and “Jewish Autonomy” The venue …
Haley E. R. Cooper, “Playing with the Past: The Ghost of Houdini Lives in a Texas Escape Room”
Locked in a 10×10 cubicle in the basement of an office building, a zombie on a chain chased me while my friends solved puzzles to get us out. When we escaped with seven seconds to …
Stefania Ragaù, Lecture- “Nationalist Humanism, ‘Nationalhumanismus,’ after George L. Mosse”
The following talk was given at Memorial Library on Thursday, 4 August 2022. For an overview of the afternoon read Libby Theune’s “Summer Scholars Share Insights on Interwar European Politics.” The call for applications for …
Austin Clements, review of Emilio Gentile’s “Fascination with the Persecutor”
Emilio Gentile. Fascination with the Persecutor: George L. Mosse and the Catastrophe of Modern Man. Trans. John and Anne Tedeschi. Foreword Stanley Payne. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 224 PP. Cloth $39.95. ISBN: 9780299334307. …
Stefania Ragaù, review of “La contemporaneità del passato. Studi in onore di Renato Moro”
Donatello Aramini, Giovanni M. Ceci, Laura Ciglioni, Maurizio Zinni, eds. La contemporaneità del passato. Studi in onore di Renato Moro. Roma: Carocci editore, 2021. 399 PP. Cloth € 44.00. ISBN 9788829013234. «La contemporaneità del passato» …
Anastasia Bruss, “Trials, Tribulations, and the Community of Badgers – UW-Madison Campus History as Told through the Oral History Program”
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 …
Mosseaner Presentations at the Spring 2022 History Department Board of Visitors Meetings
From 7-8 April 2022, the UW-Madison Department of History Board of Visitors convened at Memorial Union. Established in 2015, the Board is comprised of History alumni/ae who serve as volunteer ambassadors for the Department to …
X-Post: Jack Styler, “Those ‘Confrontational Days’: Remembering Madison’s LBGTQ+ Early Activists through Oral Histories”
This article originally appeared on the UW Archives Tumblr, “Found in the University Archives!,” (30 March 2022). *Be advised that the following clip contains sexual language. Also, the clip below and oral histories referenced below …
Oral History: Alfonso Alfonsi
Narrator: Alfonso Alfonsi Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 25 March 2018 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Total Length: 2 hours, 9 minutes, 21 seconds Alfonso Alfonsi biography: I have more than 40 years of experience …
Oral History: Paul F. Grendler
Narrator: Paul F. Grendler Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 22 January 2022 Transcribed: Maddy McGlone, Paul Grendler Format: Audio Total Length: 1 hour, 38 minutes Paul F. Grendler biography: Paul F. Grendler was born on …
Oral History: Stanley Payne
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 …
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 …