Date Which Will Live

December 7, 1941--the date of Japan's surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor--is Âa date which will live in American history and memory, but the stories that will live and the meanings attributed to them are hardly settled. In movies, books, and magazines, at memorial sites and public ceremonies, and on television and the Internet, Pearl Harbor lives in a thousand guises and symbolizes dozens of different historical lessons. In A Date Which Will Live, historian Emily S. Rosenberg examines the contested meanings of Pearl Harbor in American culture.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, 1900Â1930, also published by Duke University Press, and Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890Â1945.