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 …
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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 **To access the OHMS oral history page for …
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”
Till van Rahden. Demokratie: Eine gefährdete Lebensform. Frankfurt: Campus, 2019. 196 PP. Cloth. 24.95€. ISBN: 9783593511344. 1) What Mood Are We In? Over the past fifteen years, we have moved from complacency and hubris to …
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 …