A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory

How Pearl Harbor has been written about, thought of, and manipulated in American culture.

The Washington Post

Among other questions, Rosenberg asks how Pearl Harbor has fared over the years in print, film and "commemorative" media, as well as what it means to Japanese Americans. Noteworthy is her account of efforts to restore the good name of Adm. Husband Kimmel and Gen. Walter Short, on whose watches the bombing occurred and who, their supporters believe, were shortchanged by history. — Victorino Matus

Emily S. Rosenberg is DeWitt Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College. She is the author of Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930 (also published by Duke University Press) and Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945. She is coauthor of In Our Times: America since World War II and Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People.