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Memory and Civic Education: The Perils of Cultural Amnesia
Hudson Institute, June 4, 2008
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...

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