George L. Mosse Program Undergraduate Intern in European and Digital History
Each year the Mosse Program selects 1-3 UW-Madison History Department undergraduate students for the George L. Mosse Program Undergraduate Internship in European and Digital History. Selected students gain experience in digital humanities, public history, and the library sciences. They work with units across campus, including UW Archives, UW Libraries Special Collections, the Oral History Program, the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, and the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Mosse Digital Intern Blog Posts:
2024.06 – Maddy McDonald, “On Serving as the Undergraduate Intern in European and Digital History”
2023.10 – Rose Weithaus, “How George L. Mosse’s Scholarship Speaks to the Importance of History Today”
2022.09 – Maddy McGlone, “Archiving the Everyday and the Historian’s Craft”
2022.06 – Jack Styler, “My Year with the UW-Madison Oral History Program”
2022.05 – Anastasia Bruss, “Trials, Tribulations, and the Community of Badgers”
2022.04 – Jack Styler, “Those ‘Confrontational Days’: Remembering Madison’s LBGTQ+ Early Activists through Oral Histories”
2020.04 – Claire Hitter, Nicholas O’Connell, “Digitizing 1914: Then Came Armageddon”
2019.11 – Claire Hitter, “Memories of Memorial Union: The Preservation of Campus History at University Archives”
2019.10 – Nicholas O’Connell, “The Fry Collection: Life in Early Twentieth-Century Italy”
2019.01 – Claire Hitter, “Listening to the Past: How Oral Histories Keep Legacies Alive”
2019.01 – Piper Brown-Kingsley, “Learning the Importance of Personal Histories”
Previous Mosse Interns:
2024-2025 Olivia Kelly
2024-2025 Stella Richards
2024-2025 Theodore Xing
2023-2024 Aideen Gabbai
2023-2024 Maddy McDonald
2022-2023 Rachel Lynch
2022-2025 Rose Weithaus
2021-2022 Anastasia Lynn Bruss
2021-2022 Maddy McGlone
2021-2022 Jack Styler
2020-2021 Emmaline Soderholm
2019-2020 Nicholas O’Connell
2018-2020 Claire Hitter
2018-2019 Piper Brown-Kingsley
2017-2018 Emma Strenski
Emma Strenski was the inaugural 2017-2018 George L. Mosse Program Intern. She graduated in May 2018 with majors in History and International Studies.
In the fall of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, I oversaw the creation of a digital history exhibition to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I in partnership with the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The photographs were taken by Eduard Frankl, a press photographer based in Berlin, Germany, taken during World War I from 1914 to 1916. The photographs concern the German war effort, and include scenes in and around Berlin, Poland, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Allied prisoners of war, refugees, and the battlefront throughout Europe. This archive has approximately 1,500 photographs. I scanned each photo separately, added it to the Wisconsin Historical Society Database, translated the caption from German to English, and tagged the search criteria for the image. This process took approximately six months to complete and the images are currently hosted on the Wisconsin Historical Society website.