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Jaeger, Stephan – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2022
This article provides an analysis of how military history museums in Germany, Britain, Belgium, Poland, and the United States exhibit and contextualize weapon technologies that were developed in the two world wars. The article focuses on technologies (gas warfare, the atomic bomb, tanks, and the V2 long-range rocket) that are directly connected to…
Descriptors: Museums, Military Service, Weapons, War
Conejo Muñoz, Jessica Fernanda; Veloza-Franco, Daniel; de Icaza Lizaola, Julieta – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2023
In this article, we analyze and compare photographic images from some of the most widely circulated Japanese and American high school history textbooks regarding their treatment of the Pacific War. We focus on the visual component of war technology, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the visibility or invisibility of women,…
Descriptors: War, World History, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Kimber M. Quinney – History Teacher, 2018
Historians of American foreign relations are continuing to expand the ways in which they approach the Cold War. The range of perspectives has evolved thanks to the influence of emerging fields and new emphases in history. The end of the Cold War revealed the many ways in which the conflict was a protracted global war. But it also brought a renewed…
Descriptors: History, History Instruction, Immigration, Teaching Methods
Carvalho, Edward J., Ed.; Downing, David B. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Academic freedom has been a principle that undergirds the university since 1915. Beyond this, it also protects a spirit of free inquiry essential to a democratic society. But in the post-9/11 present, the basic principles of academic freedom have been deeply challenged. There have been many startling instances where the rhetoric of national…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Universities, College Faculty, Politics of Education
Kuehner, Trudy – Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2009
On March 28-29, 2009, FPRI's Wachman Center hosted 43 teachers from across the country for a weekend of discussion on teaching the nuclear age. In his opening remarks, Walter A. McDougall observed that although students today are not made to crawl under their desks in air raid drills, that atomic power remains, and it is still necessary to raise a…
Descriptors: Weapons, War, International Relations, World History
Spector, Ronald – Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2009
This essay is based on the author's talk at the FPRI Wachman Center's History Institute for Teachers on "What Students Need to Know about America's Wars, Part 2: 1920-Present," held May 2-3, 2009. Observing that the Vietnam War was the longest and most contested conflict in American history and that it called into question many…
Descriptors: United States History, Asian History, War, International Relations
Pretorius, Joelien – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2008
The article proceeds from the argument that war is a social institution and not a historical inevitability of human interaction, that is, war can be "unlearned." This process involves deconstructing/dismantling war as an institution in society. An important step in this process is to understand the philosophical and cultural bases on…
Descriptors: Interaction, War, Technology, Social Change
Borch, Casey; Wallace, Michael – Social Forces, 2010
Using growth curve modeling techniques, this research investigates whether military spending improved or worsened the economic well-being of citizens within the American states during the post-Vietnam War period. We empirically test the military Keynesianism claim that military spending improves the economic conditions of citizens through its use…
Descriptors: National Security, Hypothesis Testing, Armed Forces, Weapons
Ramsey, Paul J. – American Educational History Journal, 2009
The classic "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969/1991) and other writings of American novelist, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., resonate with young people and are sometimes part of the required curriculum in secondary schools, which necessitates an exploration of the ideas and ideals to which youngsters are exposed. This article explores the Atomic Age…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, War, Technological Advancement, Authors
Blackmore, Tim – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2009
The Bush Administration's quiet resumption of, or initiation of new, nuclear weapons programs aimed militarizing space, and erecting a missile defense shield that would have the effect of rolling back 19 years of solid detente, has gone largely unnoticed over the last eight years. Weapons makers, government officials and politicians have expressed…
Descriptors: Novels, Literary Genres, Futures (of Society), Death
O'Gorman, Ned – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2008
This essay presents Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential rhetoric as an iteration of an American synecdochal sublime. Eisenhower's rhetoric sought to re-aim civic sight beyond corporeal objects to the nation's transcendental essence. This rhetoric is intimately connected to prevailing political anxieties and exigencies, especially the problem of…
Descriptors: United States History, Weapons, Rhetoric, War

Kaldor, Mary – International Social Science Journal, 1983
The way military research and development (R&D) are organized in the United States, in the Soviet Union, and in some other advanced industrial countries is examined to determine how far the organization of R&D can explain the trends and direction of military technology. (RM)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Developed Nations, Expenditures, Military Organizations

Albrecht, Ulrich – International Social Science Journal, 1983
Military research and development (R&D) in Western countries and the USSR are analyzed in terms of growth; self-perception of R&D personnel; relationships with industry and the state bureaucracy; reproduction schemes which result in war-oriented work; and worker training. Prospects are slim for the conversion of military production to…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Developed Nations, Government Role, Job Training
Kelley, Colleen E. – 1988
The symbolic presence of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) has been and continues to be the pivot point in all summitry rhetoric between the American President and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. To examine some of the rhetorical choices made by Gorbachev to dramatize his vision of why Ronald Reagan refuses to…
Descriptors: Disarmament, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy

Stephens, Sharon – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1997
Theorizes the place of children in America's "Cold War Consensus" of the 1950s-60s. Counterposes dominant Cold War images of abstract, generic children (inevitably white middle class) to actual children most vulnerable to risks associated with nuclear weapons production and testing. Concludes that in various ways, these children were all…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Children, Ideology, Nationalism
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