[Bartok]

"The crisis in historical thinking is certainly real. The dislocations of the past two centuries, the propaganda apparatuses of totalitarian powers, disillusionment with the paradigms of the Enlightenment, and popular culture itself have all served to make the search for a precious and communicable past one of the most pressing problems of our time." - George Libsitz

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"One out of five students thought Watergate occurred before 1900 and only one-third could place the Civil War within the correct half-century... 38 percent of adults and 53 percent of high school students did not even know the meaning of the term Holocaust... A 1977 study of over 2,000 West Germans aged 14 to 16 revealed that nearly half knew little about the activities of the Third Reich."

Are we all going to pay a high price for our lack of historical awareness?