HISTORY: Knowing history and knowing who we are*

America is raising a generation of young people who are by-and-large historically illiterate, warns Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian David McCullough.Australia, of course, suffers an identical problem. News Weekly reproduces below an extract from an important talk David McCullough delivered last year, in which he proposed ways to inspire a greater love of history among the young.First, he says, we have to do a far better job of teaching our teachers. Second, we have to replace dreary, p…

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