History wars the enola gay and other battles
Particularly disturbing were the vitriolic claims of unpatriotic and dishonoring, indeed dishonorable, agendas of the curators and historians involved in the exhibit by politicians, some veterans groups, and many media outlets. What resulted was massive outcry by several vocal groups and all vestiges of the original intent of the exhibit were scrapped, the director of the museum resigned under pressure, and there was agitation for a congressional investigation of the Smithsonian's administration. The essays address various aspects of a particular event of focussed attention, specifically a plan by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum to put on an exhibit in 1995 featuring the Enola Gay which discussed the end of World War II as well as the beginning of the nuclear age. This book was assigned for my required general historiography class, and I found it extremely readable and very interesting. Published by Henry Holt and Company, LLC in 1996 under the imprint of Owl Books.
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Young - The victors and the vanquished / Tom Engelhardt Control code ocm34077658 Dimensions 21 cm Edition 1st edition.History Wars: The Enola Gay and other battles for the American past.Įdited by Edward T. Kohn - Culture war, history front / Mike Wallace - Dangerous history : Vietnam and the "good war" / Marilyn B. Sherry - Whose history is it anyway? Memory, politics, and historical scholarship / Paul Boyer - History at risk : the case of the Enola Gay / Richard H. Dower - Patriotic orthodoxy and American decline / Michael S. Linenthal - Three narratives of our humanity / John W. Linenthal - Anatomy of a controversy / Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt PublicationĬontent type MARC source rdacontent Contents Introduction : history under siege / Tom Engelhardt and Edward T. Label History wars : the Enola Gay and other battles for the American past, edited by Edward T. Extent vi, 295 pages Isbn 9780805043860 Lccn 96000886 Media category unmediated Media MARC source rdamedia Media type code Young - The victors and the vanquished / Tom Engelhardt Control code ocm34077658 Dimensions 21 cm Edition 1st edition.
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