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9/1/1995. Air Force Magazine publishes its twelfth article: "The Smithsonian has cleaned up its act, but the cause lives on with those who claim we bamboozled the press, the Congress, and the public."
"The Activists and the Enola Gay," by John T. Correll, Air Force Magazine, 09/95. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101227052347/http://afa.org/media/enolagay/07-18.html]
9/1995. Sampling of coverage in September by major media.
"Scripting Enola Gay," Washingtonian, September 1995, 16. Letter from Tom Crouch, Smithsonian curator, defending the plan. [FullText]
12/1995. The December 1995 (vol 82.3) issue of the Journal of American History publishes an article by Harwit and a group of articles by historians that came out of a session at the Organization of American Historians conference March 30, 1995.
"Academic Freedom in the Last Act," by Martin Harwit, 1064-84 (see also his book, An Exhibit Denied) [FullText]
"History after the Enola Gay Controversy: An Introduction," by David Thelen, 1029-35 [FullText]
"History and the Culture Wars: The Case of the Smithsonian Institution's Enola Gay Exhibition," by Richard H. Kohn, 1036-63 [FullText]
"Hiroshima as Politics and History," by Martin J. Sherwin, 1085-93 [FullText]
"Struggling with History and Memory," by Edward T. Linenthal, 1094- 1101 [FullText]
"Hiroshima/Nagasaki as History and Politics," by Rinjiro Sodei, 1118- 23 [FullText]
"Museums and the Public: Doing History Together," Thomas A. Woods, 1111-15 [FullText]
12/1995. Heyman's (almost) last word.
"Smithsonian Perspectives," by I. Michael Heyman, Smithsonian, December 1995, 20 "The conflict has required us to question anew how to respect scholarly integrity and also to assure our general and specific publics that when we deal in controversial areas, we are not using exhibitions to inculcate a particular viewpoint. This is no easy task." [FullText]