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We will never learn from the past if we've forgotten it. Now there's been a dramatic decline in the number of college students studying history.
My mother is 101 years old and in relatively good health, but has largely lost her memory. She doesn't recognize friends and family, nor understand where she is or what she's doing.
Learning about history is an antidote to the hubris of the present, the idea that everything in our lives is the ultimate.
Former President Harry S. Truman once remarked that the history we don’t know is the only new thing in the world.
A new book argues that Americans are deeply interested in the past, but in highly personal ways.
Musings by professional historians about their calling are rarely front-page material, but in their own way they matter. When the results of their self-scrutiny trickle down to the curricula that your children and grandchildren will be taught, they can matter a great deal.
Remembering Samuel Eliot Morrison
The great job of the historian is to enable people to understand how things were and why they happened so in a time and at a place that are gone forever. Somehow he has to reach the irrecoverable past.
NO, SAY THREE AMERICAN HISTORIANS. BUT THE PATIENT IS AILING AND THEY THINK THEY KNOW WHY AND WHAT TO PRESCRIBE.
"Americans are united by their history and by a faith in progress, justice, and freedom," writes President Kennedy
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