History Question

2-3 pp., double spaced

The Korean War and Memory

“Much of our early reading, particularly the Cumings book, has tried to explain what really happened in the Korean Waras an antidote, in some respects, to how the war is (mis)remembered in the United States and South Korea. Yet it is also important to assess public memory itself.

Please discuss one image of the Korean War and its ramifications for popular historical understanding as that image exists in public memory in the United States, South/North Korea, or some other location. An image, of course, can be true, false, partial, or something in between.

You may find it helpful to anchor the image you discuss in some concrete site, discourse, creative work, etc., in which it is manifest. In other words, I hope you can find and work from some example of your chosen image in the wild, rather than simply telling me what you think people think. Thus this paper encourages a mild bit of research, but on the order of pointing to a website, monument, novel, film, etc. Nonetheless, if you anchor your discussion in a source that can be cited, please do cite it.

Please be creative. Some of the tropes (e.g., the Korean War as the forgotten war in the US) and sites (the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the National Mall) can be a bit obvious, so if you centrally feature one of these you should at least try to come at it sideways in some fashion. If you can think of something less obvious, all the better. Feel free to run ideas by me.”

I added two sources that we already read in class but the assignment is not a general history paper. It focuses on how the Korean War is remembered or misremembered by the public. Include external sources tied to the chosen image. Proper citations required Chicago is fine with footnotes.

Requirements: 2-3 pp., double spaced

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