Rudy Koshar is the George L. Mosse / Wisconsin Alumni Research Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He's the author or editor of seven books, including Germany’s Transient Pasts: Preservation and National Memory in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press) and From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory 1870-1990 (University of California Press). His short fiction has appeared in Wisconsin People & Ideas Publication. Revolution House, Gravel, Eclectica, Thunder Sandwich, Forge, Sleetmagazine, and elsewhere.