Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, talked with Slate in a May 11, 2016 article titled “How Japan and the U.S. Remember World War II.”
Following the news that President Obama will be the first American president to visit Hiroshima, Isaac Chotiner, a Slate contributor, conducted an interview with Professor Gluck about “the ways in which the American and Japanese narratives of the war have changed over time, how nationalism has shaped the memory of World War II, and why Obama’s decision to visit is symbolically important.”
Read the interview with Professor Gluck here.
