A nation must think before it acts.
Professor of History, Lillian Vernon Professorship for Teaching Excellence, New York University
Mary Nolan is Professor of History at New York University. She is a specialist in twentieth-century European-American relations and in German History. Her most recent book is The Transatlantic Century: Europe and America, 1890-2010. She is also the author of Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany and coedited Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century. Recent articles deal with Americanization in Europe, with European anti-Americanism and American Anti-Europeanism, and with the politics of memory in Germany. In 2013 she received the Helmut Schmidt Prize for German-American Economic History, given by the German Historical Institute and the Zeit Foundation Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius.