Having just finished reading American Prometheus a few nights ago, I see more deeply into Justin’s brilliant reference to Pearl Harbor as perhaps the most ideologically ambiguous specific example of a mega story as a national symbol and its place in the official American History curriculum (with apologies to the Civil War). The parallels between Pearl Harbor and 9/11, attacks on blood and soil, are mind blowing. You are going to become a great history professor, my friend. The loss to secondary schooling will be a gain for university work.
Having just finished reading American Prometheus a few nights ago, I see more deeply into Justin’s brilliant reference to Pearl Harbor as perhaps the most ideologically ambiguous specific example of a mega story as a national symbol and its place in the official American History curriculum (with apologies to the Civil War). The parallels between Pearl Harbor and 9/11, attacks on blood and soil, are mind blowing. You are going to become a great history professor, my friend. The loss to secondary schooling will be a gain for university work.