Memorializing Pearl Harbor: Unfinished Histories and the Work of Remembrance

by Geoffrey M. White

Book Overview

Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II. Analyzing moments in which history is re-presented-in commemorative events, documentary films, museum design, and educational programming-Geoffrey M. White shows that the memorial to the Pearl Harbor bombing is not a fixed or singular institution. Rather, it has become a site in which many histories are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360888
• ISBN13: 9780822360889
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"