Past Obsessions
World War II in History and Memory
Humanities Forum
More than sixty-five years after it ended, the Second World War remains a contested issue in history and memory. How do examples from Europe, Asia, and North America help us to understand both how public memory operates in contemporary societies and how entrenched national war stories change—or do not change—over time? And what are the challenges posed by the present surge of memory for what we used to call history?
Carol Gluck writes on modern Japan and East Asia, twentieth-century global history, World War II, and the history-writing and public memory. At Columbia she has taught undergraduates, graduate students, and students in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) for more than thirty years.
Sponsored by the Asian Studies Program with support from the Department of History and the Dresher Center for the Humanities