My "Politics of History" students are reading something from 1996 on the Enola Gay controversy at the National Air and Space Museum.
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My "Politics of History" students are reading something from 1996 on the Enola Gay controversy at the National Air and Space Museum.
It's all too familiar. The efforts to quash critical inquiry. Attacks on expert knowledge. Revisionism as an epithet.
And this:
"It has been insufferable to hear the censors whine about their powerlessness. [...] There is a simple way conservatives might try to expunge the scholarship they detest--gut governmental funding."
Exhibiting the Enola Gay
At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, controversy surrounded the context in which the Enola Gay was to be displayed.
Smithsonian Institution Archives (siarchives.si.edu)
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My "Politics of History" students are reading something from 1996 on the Enola Gay controversy at the National Air and Space Museum.
It's all too familiar. The efforts to quash critical inquiry. Attacks on expert knowledge. Revisionism as an epithet.
And this:
"It has been insufferable to hear the censors whine about their powerlessness. [...] There is a simple way conservatives might try to expunge the scholarship they detest--gut governmental funding."
Exhibiting the Enola Gay
At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, controversy surrounded the context in which the Enola Gay was to be displayed.
Smithsonian Institution Archives (siarchives.si.edu)
This won't make you feel much better, but I share it anyway. Canadian WWII vets had a similar reaction a few years later when the Canadian War Museum opened a new exhibit suggesting the Allies might have bombed too many civilians...
