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About Michael O'Sullivan
Michael E. O’Sullivan is Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He published Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in 2018. It was recently awarded the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize for 2018.NBN Episodes hosted by Michael:
May 6, 2024
The Seduction of Youth
The Weimar Republic is well-known for its gay rights movement and recent scholarship has demonstrated some of its contradictory elements. In his recen…
February 23, 2021
Diagnosing Dissent
Although physicians during World War I, and scholars since, have addressed the idea of disorders such as shell shock as inchoate flights into sickness…
February 11, 2021
Berlin
In his pathbreaking graphic novel, Berlin (Drawn and Quarterly, 2018), Jason Lutes creates a multifaceted exploration of urban life during the Weimar…
September 7, 2020
Germany
In his groundbreaking 500-year history entitled Germany: A Nation in its Time (Liveright, 2020), Helmut Walser Smith challenges traditional perception…
August 26, 2020
The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin
Who owns the street? This is the question that animates The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin: Politics, Consumption, and Urban Space, 1914-1945 (Cam…
January 3, 2020
Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany
During Europe’s 2015 refugee crisis, more than a hundred thousand asylum seekers from the western Balkans sought refuge in Germany. This was nothing n…
December 17, 2019
The Rise and Fall of Comradeship
In The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler’s Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Pr…
December 2, 2019
History after Hitler
The decades following the end of World War II witnessed the establishment of a large and diverse German-American scholarly community studying modern G…
October 25, 2019
Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS
From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich…
September 30, 2019
Teaching Migrant Children in West Germany and Europe, 1945-1992
In her new book, Teaching Migrant Children in West Germany and Europe, 1945-1992 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Brittany Lehman examines the right to edu…
July 3, 2019
Rethinking Black German Studies
Black German Studies is an interdisciplinary field that has experienced significant growth over the past three decades, integrating subjects such as g…
June 25, 2019
Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914
Popular conceptions of Catholic censorship, symbolized above all by the Index of Forbidden Books, figure prominently in secular definitions of freedom…
June 18, 2019
“Trash,” Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
Convinced that sexual immorality and unstable gender norms were endangering national recovery after World War One, German lawmakers drafted a constitu…
May 23, 2019
The Hirschfeld Archives
Influential sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld founded Berlin's Institute of Sexual Sciences in 1919 as a home and workplace to study homosexua…
May 8, 2019
Queer Identities and Politics in Germany
Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history, including the growth of the world's first hom…
January 25, 2019
Unlearning Eugenics
In her new book, Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), Dagmar Herzog…
January 14, 2019
Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany
After years of being overlooked, there has been a growing interest among academic historians in the history of Turkish Guest Workers in West Germany. …
October 8, 2018
Hitler versus Hindenburg
The failure of democracy during the Weimar Republic is currently at the center of public discussion due to the global populist wave of the last few ye…
September 11, 2018
The Death of Democracy
The downfall of the Weimar Republic in Germany has long fascinated historians, but this catastrophe gained increasing prominence as a touchstone for c…
July 4, 2018
Turkish Guest Workers in Germany
During the 1960s, West Germany eagerly courted workers from Turkey to manage a labor shortage during the country’s Economic Miracle. This program caus…
June 22, 2018
Sexual Treason in Germany during the First World War
The First World War is usually associated with Trench Warfare, industrial mobilization, and the Lost Generation. In her recent book, Sexual Treason in…
March 19, 2018
Sex and the Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic was home to the first gay rights movement, led by well-known sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. It also inspired many literary and cine…
February 21, 2018
The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980
Historical debates about the actions of the Roman Catholic Church in relationship to the Third Reich have never been restricted to academic presses an…