Incontestable Proof Will Be Exacted

Historians, Asian Americans, and the Medal of Honor

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ID11664774
AuthorsJames C Mcnaughton (corresponding author), Kristen Edwards, Kristen E Edwards, Jay M Price
Year2002
Volume24
Issue4
Pages11-33
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Public Historian (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0272-3433 • E-ISSN: 1533-8576
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/tph.2002.24.4.11
OpenAlexW1988407738
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

For more than a century the Medal of Honor has served as a revered symbol of valor and service to the nation. In the 1990s Japanese American veterans requested a review of their service in World War II to determine whether the U.S. Army has overlooked any of their number for the award. In 1996 a team of historians began a review of all Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who fought in that war. Their work resulted in the award of twenty-two new Medals of Honor in June 2000. The review was also a revealing journey into the challenges of amending public memory

Art history · Asia pacific · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Honor · Medal · Military service · Political science · Service (business · Symbol (formal · Work (physics · World War II · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Engineering · History · Law · Medicine · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Gerontology

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