History

<p>"Americans are united by their history and by a faith in progress, justice, and freedom," writes President Kennedy</p>

<p><span class="deck">NO, SAY THREE AMERICAN HISTORIANS. BUT THE PATIENT IS AILING AND THEY THINK THEY KNOW WHY AND WHAT TO PRESCRIBE.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Remembering Samuel Eliot Morrison</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A new book argues that Americans are deeply interested in the past, but in highly personal ways.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Learning about history is an antidote to the hubris of the present, the idea that everything in our lives is the ultimate.</span></p>

<p>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.</p>