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About
7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 7
Conversation / Q&A
Campus Center West Auditorium
University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
David Nasaw, major American historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the author of The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II (2025). The heroism of the men and women who won WWII may be well documented, but we know too little about the pain and hardships the veterans endured.
Contrary to the prevailing narratives of triumph, this new history presents the largely unacknowledged realities the veterans—and the nation—faced, radically reshaping our understanding of American history. The Wall Street Journal said, “As [Nasaw]… makes emphatically clear, a good war is an oxymoron. Just wars there are and necessary wars, but there are no good wars.”
Cosponsored by the History Department of the College of Arts and Sciences at UAlbany.