The history wars, 1945-2009

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Content Summary:

This series includes miscellaneous papers concerning the 'history wars'. The series includes newspaper clippings, copies of articles, and notes concerning Keith Windshuttle's rebuttal of Reynolds' view that that conflict between black and white Australians in the colonial era should be seen as war. Most papers are loose, but here are also folders entitled: Keith Windshuttle, the National Museum of Australia, Pinjarra, Histories, Black Arm Band, Tasmania and Genocide, Phillip, The Historians, History, Fate of a free people, Academy, Lindley, and Rebecca

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were purchased by the Library from Henry Reynolds in 1999. Further papers were added in 2009.

Subjects:

Indigenous peoples
Academic
History

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