Reviewing public history in light of the Enola Gay

Technology and Culture

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 457-461

  Pretzer, William S ^a  

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EID: 0032235879     PISSN: 0040165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/tech.1998.0050     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Thomas W. Leavitt, "Toward a Standard of Excellence: The Nature and Purpose of Exhibit Reviews," Technology and Culture 9 (1968): 70-75; Bernard S. Finn, "Exhibit Reviews: Twenty Years After," Technology and Culture 30 (1989): 993-1003. For recent evidence of their continuing influence, see Sue Ann Cody, "Historical Museums on the World Wide Web: An Exploration and Critical Analysis," Public Historian 19 (fall 1997): 29-53.
2. Thomas W. Leavitt, "Toward a Standard of Excellence: The Nature and Purpose of Exhibit Reviews," Technology and Culture 9 (1968): 70-75; Bernard S. Finn, "Exhibit Reviews: Twenty Years After," Technology and Culture 30 (1989): 993-1003. For recent evidence of their continuing influence, see Sue Ann Cody, "Historical Museums on the World Wide Web: An Exploration and Critical Analysis," Public Historian 19 (fall 1997): 29-53.
3. Thomas W. Leavitt, "Toward a Standard of Excellence: The Nature and Purpose of Exhibit Reviews," Technology and Culture 9 (1968): 70-75; Bernard S. Finn, "Exhibit Reviews: Twenty Years After," Technology and Culture 30 (1989): 993-1003. For recent evidence of their continuing influence, see Sue Ann Cody, "Historical Museums on the World Wide Web: An Exploration and Critical Analysis," Public Historian 19 (fall 1997): 29-53.
4. The four books: Kai Bird and Lawrence Lifschultz, eds., Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy (Stony Creek, Conn., 1997); Martin Harwit, An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of the "Enola Gay" (New York, 1996); Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt, eds., History Wars: The "Enola Gay" and Other Battles for the American Past (New York, 1996); and Philip Nobile, ed., Judgment at the Smithsonian (New York, 1995).
5. The four books: Kai Bird and Lawrence Lifschultz, eds., Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy (Stony Creek, Conn., 1997); Martin Harwit, An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of the "Enola Gay" (New York, 1996); Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt, eds., History Wars: The "Enola Gay" and Other Battles for the American Past (New York, 1996); and Philip Nobile, ed., Judgment at the Smithsonian (New York, 1995).
6. The four books: Kai Bird and Lawrence Lifschultz, eds., Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy (Stony Creek, Conn., 1997); Martin Harwit, An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of the "Enola Gay" (New York, 1996); Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt, eds., History Wars: The "Enola Gay" and Other Battles for the American Past (New York, 1996); and Philip Nobile, ed., Judgment at the Smithsonian (New York, 1995).
7. The four books: Kai Bird and Lawrence Lifschultz, eds., Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy (Stony Creek, Conn., 1997); Martin Harwit, An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of the "Enola Gay" (New York, 1996); Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt, eds., History Wars: The "Enola Gay" and Other Battles for the American Past (New York, 1996); and Philip Nobile, ed., Judgment at the Smithsonian (New York, 1995).
8. Marilyn B. Young, "Dangerous History: Vietnam and the 'Good War,'" in Linenthal and Engelhardt, 206.
9. Lois Silverman, "Making Meaning Together: Lessons from the Field of American History," Journal of Museum Education 18 (1993): 7-11.
10. American Association of Museums, Excellence and Equity: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums (Washington, D.C., 1993); Lisa C. Roberts. From Knowledge to Narrative: Educators and the Changing Museum (Washington, D.C., 1997).
11. American Association of Museums, Excellence and Equity: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums (Washington, D.C., 1993); Lisa C. Roberts. From Knowledge to Narrative: Educators and the Changing Museum (Washington, D.C., 1997).
12. Steven Lubar, "Exhibiting Memories," Museum News 75 (July/August 1996): 60-61, 71-73.
13. Barbara Franco, "The Communication Conundrum: What Is the Message? Who Is Listening?" Journal of American History 81 (June 1994): 151-63.
14. For an even more "audience-centered" approach, see John Kuo Wei Tchen, "Back to the Basics: Who Is Researching and Interpreting for Whom?" Journal of American History 81 (December 1994): 1004-10. See also the important essay by Barbara Franco, "Doing History in Public: Balancing Historical Fact with Public Meaning," Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 33 (May/June 1995): 5-8; and Thomas A. Woods, "Museums and the Public: Doing History Together," and the other essays in "History and the Public: What Can We Handle? A Round Table about History after the Enola Gay Controversy," Journal of American History 82 (December 1995): 1029-115.
15. For an even more "audience-centered" approach, see John Kuo Wei Tchen, "Back to the Basics: Who Is Researching and Interpreting for Whom?" Journal of American History 81 (December 1994): 1004-10. See also the important essay by Barbara Franco, "Doing History in Public: Balancing Historical Fact with Public Meaning," Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 33 (May/June 1995): 5-8; and Thomas A. Woods, "Museums and the Public: Doing History Together," and the other essays in "History and the Public: What Can We Handle? A Round Table about History after the Enola Gay Controversy," Journal of American History 82 (December 1995): 1029-115.
16. For an even more "audience-centered" approach, see John Kuo Wei Tchen, "Back to the Basics: Who Is Researching and Interpreting for Whom?" Journal of American History 81 (December 1994): 1004-10. See also the important essay by Barbara Franco, "Doing History in Public: Balancing Historical Fact with Public Meaning," Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 33 (May/June 1995): 5-8; and Thomas A. Woods, "Museums and the Public: Doing History Together," and the other essays in "History and the Public: What Can We Handle? A Round Table about History after the Enola Gay Controversy," Journal of American History 82 (December 1995): 1029-115.
17. Adrienne Hood, "The Practice of (American) History: A Canadian Curator's Perspective," Journal of American History 81 (December 1994): 1011-19, maintains that the public controversy caused by conflicted readings of a recent major exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto "changed forever how exhibitions are conceived and realized by recognizing the importance of nonverbal communication and the need for community consultation in the planning process." As this example suggests, changes in the relationship between the public, the museum, and the academy are not related just to American politics, the Smithsonian Institution, or the interpretation of the Enola Gay.