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Taylor, Tony, Ed.; Guyver, Robert, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
The book is entitled History Wars in the Classroom: Global Perspectives and examines how ten separate countries have experienced debates and disputes over the contested nature of the subject, for example the "Black Armband" and "Whitewash" factions in Australia who adopt opposingly celebratory or denigratory views of Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Modern History, Textbooks, Racial Segregation
Crawford, Keith A., Ed.; Foster, Stuart J., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2007
The Second World War stands as the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history. More than 60 nations representing 1.7 billion people or three quarters of the world's population were consumed by its horror. Not surprisingly, therefore, World War II stands as a landmark episode in history education throughout the world and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, War, Memory
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. National Air And Space Museum. – 1995
This text accompanied the Smithsonian Institution's display, "Enola Gay," at the National Air and Space Museum commemorating the end of World War II and the role played by the B-29 aircraft, Enola Gay, that on August 6, 1945 carried the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki led to the…
Descriptors: Current Events, Exhibits, Modern History, Nuclear Warfare
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Schlene, Vickie L. – Southern Social Studies Journal, 1991
Presents nine documents from the ERIC database dealing with teaching about World War II. Includes articles addressing the lessons of Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, industry's response to the war, and the moral lessons of Nazism. (SG)
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Foreign Countries
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. National Air And Space Museum. – 1995
This text was to have been the script for the National Air and Space Museum's exhibition of the Enola Gay, focusing on the end of World War II and the decision of the United States to use of the atomic bomb. The Enola Gay was a B-29 aircraft that carried the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb brought a…
Descriptors: Current Events, Exhibits, International Relations, Military Science