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Thank God for the Atom Bomb?

by Richard Rice

I once received a call from the concerned editor of an education journal: “Could you find a source other than Thank God for the Atom Bomb? We feel it inappropriate for teachers to see it in a journal dedicated to international understanding.” Since the essay on travel versus tourism that I wanted to cite appeared only in this provocatively titled collection of Paul Fussell essays, they finally did allow it to appear in a footnote. The phrase—without the question mark I add above to my own ...

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Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

by Richard Rice

This collection of over two hundred wartime editorial cartoons of Dr. Seuss may surprise readers more familiar with his postwar children's books. Appearing in the New Deal-tinged New York newspaper PM in 1941 and 1942. The drawing style and fantasy in the cartoons are clearly Seussian. However, instead of the pure whimsy of cultural icons such as The Cat in the Hat, Horton, or The Grinch That Stole Christmas, the wartime cartoon are blatantly didactic, if not propagandistic. Many cartoons ridicu...

Essay, Resources

Taking the Tiger by the Tail: Teaching with Tora no Maki

by Richard Rice

In the summers of 1995 and 1996, twenty and twenty-two teachers participated in the two-week Keizai Koho Center Program in Japan, in conjunction with the National Council of the Social Studies. The partnership dates back to 1980, and now the NCSS has distributed the resulting nineteen and twenty-two lesson plans in two sets to its entire membership. Widespread national dissemination of this teaching material demands close examination of this important teaching resource, and a format different fr...

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