2016
DOI: 10.20509/tem-1980-542x2016v224007
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The American Past in the Age of Fracture: episodes from the History Wars in the United States during the 1990s

Abstract: In the 1990s, the United States faced several history wars about the meaning of the national past for that present. Among these, we can highlight the controversy over National History Standards, which sought to minimally incorporate certain multicultural perspectives for the teaching of history in the country, and the Crossroads exhibition, imagined as a critical reflection about the end of World War II and the use of atombombs against Japan. These disputes, the article argues, can be understood in the broader… Show more

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