History 191HIST1 - FYS- WWII and American Memory

Through scholarly studies, fiction, and film, this three-unit seminar explores the contested meanings of World War II in American history, culture, politics, and memory. How have Americans remembered the war? What war-related stories have been forgotten, distorted, or ignored? What have been the dominant American narratives of WWII and how are they complicated or contradicted when we focus on women, people of color, and others whose experiences and memories are often excluded from museum exhibits, popular culture, and state- or corporate-sponsored commemorations and memorials?

Open to freshman History majors.