For this week’s blog post I was tasked with exploring denialism of war crimes. After some general searching, I found that one of the most prevalent examples is denialism of Japanese war crimes during World War II. Despite the Japanese public becoming more informed over the decades, there remains a sizable group among the population …
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In “The Anatomy of the Myth,” Alan T. Nolan discusses Civil War denialism, specifically focusing on the “Lost Cause” perspective. Nolan outlines the claims that Lost Cause proponents make, and then explains the purpose this view serves. First, Lost Cause proponents claim that neither the South’s secession nor the war were fought to protect slavery. …
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As we have discussed in past post, historiography can take many forms. The most basic of which simply being a different perspective of an established narrative. Historical negationism falls under the rather large umbrella of historiography. Negationism particularly refers the the denial, or negating, of a particular event, usually an atrocity or war crime, in …
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For this blog, I examined the creation of Israel from the Jewish perspective. I found a lot of articles by Jewish writers and from Jewish websites that showed their unique perspective. One article by My Jewish Learning, a website devoted to empowering Jewish discovery and scholarship, called “The Birth of Israel” examines the origins of …
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The end of World War Two saw a complex geopolitical scene develop across the globe. The United States occupied islands throughout the Pacific as well as a good portion of Western Germany and Berlin. The USSR controlled vast amounts of land that included everything from Poland and the Baltics to Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan in …
I looked at an article from a German website. The article discusses the friendship between Germany and Israel today and the prospects of that friendship lasting into the future. The article is relevant to the prompt of “how did ‘x’ nationality” feel about the creation of Israel because it addresses that issue multiple times in…
Negationism is defined as, “the denial of historic crimes.” Revisionism is not the same as negationism but the two have been linked because both deal with the altering perspectives of a given topic. The two forms of conveying history are different, because revisionism focuses on exploring and informing the public on a different perspective of…
The article I read comes from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s website and discusses book burning in Nazi Germany. The author begins by discussing how book burning in Germany had its start in the nineteenth century, when nationalist students of a divided Germany pushed for German unification by burning books deemed “un-German.” The author…
Who started the Korean war in the 1950’s? Most reliable sources would tell you that it was the North Koreans who were the aggressors in the beginning of the conflict. However, this isn’t true for all sources. Ho Jong Ho wrote a book for Foreign Languages, Publishing House in Pyongyang in 1993. His intentions can …
Life Magazine on September 28th, 1962 introduced nine of NASA’s new astronauts that would be taking part in Gemini and Apollo missions. Some of the names might sound familiar: Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Charles Conrad, James Lovell, James McDivitt, Thomas Stafford, Edward White, and John Young. With a description given of every man including …