The book offers the final word on the debate over Truman’s decision to drop the bomb. Sam Johnson (R-Tex.), who recently joined the Smithsonian Board of Regents, said that while the Enola Gay 'was not the only exhibit that had been overcome by political corectness and revisionism, I do want to stress that the majority of exhibits at the Smithsonian are very impressive and historically accurate. Enola Gay and the Court of History is compulsory reading for all those interested in the history of the Pacific war, the morality of war, and the failed NASM exhibition. His full-scale investigation of the historical dispute results in a compelling story of how and why our views about the bombing of Japan have evolved since its occurrence. Newman explores the tremendous challenges that NASM faced when trying to construct a narrative that would satisfy American veterans and the Japanese, as well as accurately reflect the current historical research on both the period and the bomb. Newman’s argument centers on the controversy that erupted around the National Air and Space Museum’s (NASM) exhibit of Enola Gay in 1995. Udvar-Hazy Center, on its opening day, Dec. The fate of this exhibition has been the subject of at. Demonstrators protest at the Enola Gay exhibit at the the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Newman offers a fresh perspective on the dispute over President Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan in World War II. These debates are exemplified in the ill-fated Enola Gay exhibi- tion at the Smithsonian Institution.
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In fact, any attempts to produce or exhibit narratives about the past will always spark a controversy and incites various arguments and struggles over historical truth. In this hard-hitting, thoroughly researched, and crisply argued book, award-winning historian Robert P. Meanwhile, plans were initiated in the 1980s to display the Enola Gay at the National Air and Space Museum. The Enola Gay controversy or some might called it the Smithsonian atomic bomb exhibit debates sparks a History Wars in American public.