Re‐visions of the holocaust: Textbook images and historical myth‐making

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-159

  Perlmutter, David D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Historiography; Holocaust; Myth; Photograph; Representation of minorities; Revisionism; Stereotype; Textbook

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937267571     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: 10964649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10646179709361750     Document Type: Article

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