"Don't Remember Pearl Harbor"

"As UC Irvine historian Emily Rosenberg explained it in her book 'A Date Which Will Live,' historical memory is not fixed. Lessons that seem crucial at one point can be ignored at another. Memory, even of the most unforgettable events, is unstable and can be transformed by new circumstances."

Jon Wiener in the Los Angeles Times looks back to 1951 and the tenth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

There Is No Definition of Victory

"While history came to look well on the president's decision as brave and correct, the episode nonetheless left a lasting current of popular sentiment that in matters of war and peace, the military really knows best. At odds with the American tradition of the primacy of civilian rule, this attitude—call it MacArthurism—has continued sporadically to haunt American politics."

David Greenberg in Slate discusses the legacy of the Truman-MacArthur showdown during the Korean War.

Hot and Cold Wars

"Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination in this chronologically re-enacted smorgasbord of aggression," via the short film "Food Fight."