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Monica Black, "A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany" (us.macmillan.com/books/9781250225672) (Metropolitan Books, 2020).
Confronting History: A George L. Mosse Program in History Webinar
2 June 2021
Monica Black is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Here research focuses on the cultural social history of Germany, with an emphasis on the era of the World Wars and the decades immediately after 1945. She is also one of the editors of the journal, "Central European History" (cambridge.org/core/journals/central-european-history). Her first book, "Death in Berlin: From Weimar to Divided Germany," was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010 (cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/twentieth-century-european-history/death-berlin-weimar-divided-germany?format=HB&isbn=9780521118514).
James C. Ungureanu is Historian-in-Residence in the George L. Mosse Program in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an intellectual historian with a particular interest in the history of religious thought. He is also the author of "Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict" (upittpress.org/books/9780822945819/) (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019).
Sponsored by: George L. Mosse Program in History
For additional reading:
Michael E. O'Sullivan, Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 (amazon.com/Disruptive-Power-Catholic-Miracles-1918-1965/dp/1487503431) (University of Toronto Press, 2018).
Hans Fallada (Rudolf Wihelm Friedrich Ditzen), Every Man Dies Alone (amazon.com/Every-Man-Dies-Alone-Novel/dp/1935554042) (1947).
Monica Black, "A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany" (us.macmillan.com/books/9781250225672) (Metropolitan Books, 2020).
Confronting History: A George L. Mosse Program in History Webinar
2 June 2021
Monica Black is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Here research focuses on the cultural social history of Germany, with an emphasis on the era of the World Wars and the decades immediately after 1945. She is also one of the editors of the journal, "Central European History" (cambridge.org/core/journals/central-european-history). Her first book, "Death in Berlin: From Weimar to Divided Germany," was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010 (cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/twentieth-century-european-history/death-berlin-weimar-divided-germany?format=HB&isbn=9780521118514).
James C. Ungureanu is Historian-in-Residence in the George L. Mosse Program in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an intellectual historian with a particular interest in the history of religious thought. He is also the author of "Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict" (upittpress.org/books/9780822945819/) (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019).
Sponsored by: George L. Mosse Program in History
For additional reading:
Michael E. O'Sullivan, Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 (amazon.com/Disruptive-Power-Catholic-Miracles-1918-1965/dp/1487503431) (University of Toronto Press, 2018).
Hans Fallada (Rudolf Wihelm Friedrich Ditzen), Every Man Dies Alone (amazon.com/Every-Man-Dies-Alone-Novel/dp/1935554042) (1947).
