Andrew C. Donson

Assistant Professor

Departments of History and
German and Scandinavian Studies

 

Ph.D., European and German History
The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 2000

My Blog

 

Don't do this in class:                         

Max Beckmann, Die Gähnenden (The Yawners), 1918

 

Current Courses

Recent Courses

Past Courses

Research Interests

Selected Publications

Favorite Links

 

Current courses

I am on leave for the 2007-2008 academic year

Recent courses

Hist 101:  Western Thought Since 1600

Germ 376 / Hist 387:  The Holocaust

Germ 793D / Hist 697K:  The Weimar Republic

Germ 497:  Nazi Germany

Hist 323: Modern German History

Germ 370 19th-Century German Thought

Past courses

Western Civilization to 1600

Die deutsche Geschichtsschreibung

History of Childhood and Adolescence

Advanced English:  Writing and Grammar

19th-Century Europe:  Liberalism and Its Critics

20th-Century Europe:  Fascism, Communism, Modernism

Great Books: Greek, Roman, Biblical, and Renaissance

Great Books:  Greek Epic, Drama, History, and Philosophy

Research interests

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany, and the history of youth, women, nationalism, socialism, and liberalism.

Selected Publications

Youth in the Fatherless Land: War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany, 1914-1918. Under review at Harvard University Press.
Winner of the 2007 Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History

"From War Pedagogy to Reform Pedagogy: Education and Youth Reform before 1914 and the Mobilization for War in Germany." Raising Citizens in the “Century of the Child:" Child-rearing and Education in the United States and Central Europe in the 20th Century. Ed. Dirk Schumann. New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming.

"Why Did German Youth Become Fascists? Nationalist Males Born 1900 to 1908 in War and Revolution." Social History 31 (2006): 337-58.

"Models for Young Nationalists and Militarists: Youth Literature in the First World War." German Studies Review 27 (2004): 575-94.

Favorite links

Leo German-English Dictionary

The American Historical Association

The German Studies Association

The German Historical Institute

Deutsches Historisches Museum

H-German Homepage

H-Soz-Kult

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Univ. of Mass. History Department

Univ. of Mass. Germanic Languages and Literatures

WorldCat (Univ. of Massachusetts)

Historical Abstracts (Univ. of Massachusetts)

Zeitschriftendatenbank

Staatsbibliothek Berlin

German and Scandinavian Studies

505 Herter Hall

The University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, MA  01003

Tel. 413.545.6676  Fax 413.545.6695

Email:  adonson@german.umass.edu