Why did the Smithsonian Institution’s Enola Gay exhibit spark so much controversy in 1995?
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Why did the Smithsonian Institution’s Enola Gay exhibit spark so much controversy in 1995?
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Could it be said that this controversy was part of a larger discussion over the tensions between consensus history (via Beard) and social history that we discussion in Week 4 (and if so, how so)? Using the readings from Week 6 (especially Section 6 of the AHA’s Standards of Professional Conduct), what can we do as historians to avoid controversy over divergent, even discriminatory interpretations of historical events, particularly in the public realm?
