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 The only thing that's new is the history you haven't learned yet. Harry S. Truman;  To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. Leopold von Ranke; The man who does not study history is condemned to repeat it. Georges Santayana; That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. Aldous Huxley; Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. Erica Jong; The history of liberty is a history of resistance. Nadia Boulanger; All human histories are provisional; none will have the last word. ...[A] democratic practice of history --one in which an ever-growing chorus of voices is heard-- will depend upon objectivity, defined anew as a commitment to honest investigation, open process of research, and engaged public discussions of the meaning of historical facts. Dr. Joyce ApplebyWell, perhaps there is an exception:  The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. Dan Quaylecreated by bjm enterprises; par in parem imperium non habet BMcManus@BemidjiState.edu |