Short Enola Gay: Debrief
Information Resources for the Role-Playing Game
Primary sources
- 1994 Aug. Veterans: "Enola Gay" Display makes Americans look BadVeterans: "Enola Gay" Display makes Americans look Bad. Byline New York Times 28 Aug 1994
- 1994-1995. Senate Documents on the Enola Gay Exhibit“Documents.” The Journal of American History 82, no. 3 (1995): 1136–44. Several documents reprinted in this issue.
- 2015. Hiroshima DebateWalker, J. S. and Gar Alperovitz. "Should the U.S. have Dropped the Atom Bomb?" New York Times Upfront, Mar 16, 2015, 22-23,
- 1994 Nov. Historians letters to the Smithsonian [pdf file]First letter to Ira Michael Heyman, Smithsonian Museum, Nov 16 1994
Second letter to Martin Harwitt, National Air and Space Museum, Nov 17 1994 - Jan 1995 Script for Draft 2 of Exhibit Last Act [pdf file]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.
Enola Gay Exhibition Causes Protest (AP) 28 June 1995
Description You Tube video of protest at Smithsonian exhibit from June 28 1995.
- Controversy over the Enola Gay Exhibition (2016)Website from the American Heritage Assoc. that included the YouTube video above
Hiroshima: Why the Bomb was Dropped (1995)
- Hiroshima: Why the Bomb was Dropped 1995You Tube video (age restricted) of broadcast from 1995.
Secondary Sources
An Exhibit Denied: lobbying the history of Enola Gay by Call Number: Henderson Library Main Stacks, 4th Floor ; D767.25.H6 H348 1996Publication Date: 1996
Displays of Power: controversy in the American Museum from the Enola Gay to Sensation by Call Number: Lane Main Stacks ;AM151 .D84 1999Publication Date: 1999
History Wars: the Enola Gay and other battles for the American past by Call Number: Copies at Lane and Henderson link for detailsISBN: 9780805043877Publication Date: 1996
Websites
- The Enola Gay ControversyThis site was designed for use in "History on Trial," an online first-year writing course initially offered Spring 2000 as part of the Clipper Project at Lehigh University.