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The Hoover Institution’s library and tower will be closed on Tuesday morning, February 14, 2012, due to electrical work. The Hoover archives will be open during the process. The library and tower will reopen at 11:30 am on February 14, 2012. We apologize for any inconvenience.
June 4, 2008 | Hudson Institute
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Memory and Civic Education: The Perils of Cultural Amnesia

by Victor Davis Hanson (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow)

THE TRADITIONAL—and classical—definition of civic education rested on the assumption of a people’s collective memory...