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From Guadalcanal to Baqubah

From Guadalcanal to Baqubah. New Methods and Tools for Teaching the War in Iraq. Teaching Iraq: Lessons from WWII. Film is widely used to accentuate lessons on WWII Many films and memoirs of the conflict were made and released during or a short time after the conflict Guadalcanal Diary

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From Guadalcanal to Baqubah

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  1. From Guadalcanal to Baqubah New Methods and Tools for Teaching the War in Iraq

  2. Teaching Iraq: Lessons from WWII • Film is widely used to accentuate lessons on WWII • Many films and memoirs of the conflict were made and released during or a short time after the conflict • Guadalcanal Diary • Memoir by Richard Tregaskis, embedded with Marines at the "tip of the spear" in the Pacific • Interesting corollary to coverage of Iraq war • Can be used in compare and contrast lessons • The Thin Red Line • James Jones Novel and Terrence Malik film • Can show how portrayals of war change with time • Great case for re-evaluating the experience of combat 

  3. Iraq Yesterday • Problems in 20th Century Iraqi History • Historiography of 20th Century Iraq is rich with the exception of the Saddam Era • History from 1960-present is heavily reliant on foreign records, and oral history/interviews/personal memoirs • Sources do allow a more diverse portrait of Iraq before Baathi's • Baghdad Yesterday: The Making of an Arab Jew • Sasson Somekh's memoir can be introduced at earlier grade levels or in High School • Forget Baghdad • Poignant documentary about Jews who left Baghdad in the airlift (1951)

  4. Evaluating the Iraq War in Film • Generation Kill (2008 HBO Miniseries) • David Simon, Ed Burns -- Creators of "The Wire" • Follows the experiences of Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright, embedded in Bravo Company, First Reconnaissance Battalion US Marines • Excellent opportunity to demonstrate the combat experience in Iraq • Chance to discuss the unique perspective of the embedded journalist

  5. Selections from Generation Kill

  6. Marine Music: Generation Kill

  7. The Hurt Locker: The Occupation in Film • Kathryn Bigelow (dir.) • 2010 'Best Picture' Winner at Oscars • Most Successful Iraq war film to date • Depicts post-invasion military experience through the eyes of a bomb-defusing squad • Skewered by some military experts for inaccurate details, fanciful plotline • Powerfully depicts the psychological complexes of modern war

  8. The Hurt Locker

  9. Iraq in Fragments (2006)     • James Longley (dir) • Best Documentary Oscar nominee (2007) • Follows an orphaned 11 year old Sunni boy, two followers of Shi'i cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and a group of Kurdish farmers • Excellent way to introduce post-War Iraq into the classroom.

  10. Iraq in Fragments

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