June 8, 2001
How Scholars Can Improve History Lessons
Historians today find themselves in an unusual position. Their field, for many years an ideologically charged battleground, now enjoys bipartisan congressional support. It's time to consider how to make the most of that opportunity.
It began last summer. First, Sen. Joseph Lieberman and some Senate and House colleagues unveiled a resolution decrying the historical illiteracy of the next generation of the nation's citizens. "When we lose the memory of our past, when we lose our
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