Newmans latest entry into the historiographical debate over the atomic bombing of Japan is. Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. The Journal of Military History 69.1 (2005) 277-278 Robert P. Smithsonian History Bibliography Summary:Ī collection of essays by eight historians address the controversy at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in the early 1990s over the display of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima at the close of World War II. Number of pages: 301 Page numbers : 1-295 Place: The Enola Gay conflict, writes University of Wisconsin history professor Paul Boyer, was about ''the disparity between the mythic past inscribed in popular memory and the past that is the raw material of historical scholarship.'' This round of history wars, conclude the writers in this excellent collection, was won by the myth-makers. National Air and Space Museum Research Advisory Committee Search thisĮnola Gay (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.) Search thisĬrossroads: The End of World War II, the Atomic Bomb, and the Origins of the Cold War, The (Exhibition) Search this Physical description:
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Less significantly, from a professional standpoint, the Enola Gay controversy made me less sanguine about the usefulness of history outside of the academy. 11 to the Iraq war point out all too clearly.
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