A Narrative for Our Time

"The Enola Gay "and after that, period

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ID4021768
AuthorsRobert C Post (0000-0002-2581-919X, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume45
Issue2
Pages373-395
Publication date2004-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTechnology and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/tech.2004.0087
OpenAlexW1972162507
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited16

For a little while in the fall of 2003, during the run-up to the centennial of flight on 17 December and the opening of the National Air and Space Museum's satellite in Virginia, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, historians whose names have often graced the pages of Technology and Culture began to turn up with unusual regularity on television and radio and in the popular press: among others, Roger Bilstein, Robert van der Linden, Richard Hallion, Bayla Singer, Joe Corn, John Anderson, Peter Jakab, and, perhaps most ubiquitous, Tom Crouch. Several had written books whose publication coincided with the centennial—Hallion's Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War, for example, and Crouch's Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age. A feature article in the December Smithsonian, "Taking Wing: A Century of Flight," [End Page 373] quoted a half-dozen historians on the significance of Kitty Hawk but gave pride of place to Crouch: "Aviation is the definitive technology of the 20th century," he said. "Flight symbolized our deepest aspirations, like freedom and control of our destiny."

Adventure · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Centennial · Destiny (ISS module) · Dozen · Manifest destiny · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Pride · World War II · Archaeological Research and Protection · Engineering · History · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy, History, and Historiography

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