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History Wars
The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past
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eBook - ePub
History Wars
The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past
About this book
Inspired by the Smithsonian's controversial exhibit on the
Enola Gay, "excellent" essays examining America's attitudes toward her past (
Kirkus Reviews).
"Our history has been held hostage by the righteous rightâLegionnaires, Congressional Claghorns, and courtier-scholarsâever since Year One. From the winning of the West to Hiroshima, our nation's purity of purpose was never doubted. Along comes a platoon of independent-minded American historians who challenge this holy postulate. This is a stimulating and revelatory work." âStuds Terkel
From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics. What kind of history Americans should read, see, or fund is no longer merely a matter of professional interest to teachers, historians, and museum curators. Everywhere now, history is increasingly being held hostage, but to what end and why? In History Wars, eight prominent historians consider the angry swirl of emotions that now surrounds public memory.
Included are trenchant essays by Paul Boyer, John W. Dower, Tom Engelhardt, Richard H. Kohn, Edward Linenthal, Micahel S. Sherry, Marilyn B. Young, and Mike Wallace.
"A must-read on the culture wars. At a time when amnesia is considered patriotically correct, the essays in this superb volume go a long way toward showing what is at stake when profiles in cowardice loom over the national culture." âTodd Gitlin, author of The Twilight of Common Dreams
"Our history has been held hostage by the righteous rightâLegionnaires, Congressional Claghorns, and courtier-scholarsâever since Year One. From the winning of the West to Hiroshima, our nation's purity of purpose was never doubted. Along comes a platoon of independent-minded American historians who challenge this holy postulate. This is a stimulating and revelatory work." âStuds Terkel
From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics. What kind of history Americans should read, see, or fund is no longer merely a matter of professional interest to teachers, historians, and museum curators. Everywhere now, history is increasingly being held hostage, but to what end and why? In History Wars, eight prominent historians consider the angry swirl of emotions that now surrounds public memory.
Included are trenchant essays by Paul Boyer, John W. Dower, Tom Engelhardt, Richard H. Kohn, Edward Linenthal, Micahel S. Sherry, Marilyn B. Young, and Mike Wallace.
"A must-read on the culture wars. At a time when amnesia is considered patriotically correct, the essays in this superb volume go a long way toward showing what is at stake when profiles in cowardice loom over the national culture." âTodd Gitlin, author of The Twilight of Common Dreams
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION: HISTORY UNDER SIEGE
- 1 - ANATOMY OF A CONTROVERSY
- 2 - THREE NARRATIVES OF OUR HUMANITY
- 3 - PATRIOTIC ORTHODOXY AND AMERICAN DECLINE
- 4 - WHOSE HISTORY IS IT ANYWAY? MEMORY, POLITICS, AND HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP
- 5 - HISTORY AT RISK: THE CASE OF THE ENOLA GAY
- 6 - CULTURE WAR, HISTORY FRONT
- 7 - DANGEROUS HISTORY: VIETNAM AND THE âGOOD WARâ
- 8 - THE VICTORS AND THE VANQUISHED
- NOTES
- THE CONTRIBUTORS
- Copyright Page