Word: civilizations
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Moreover, why do Harvard students especially bear the burden of studying American history? Why force a physics major to name the dates of the Civil War when she may have no interest at all in the subject matter? We face enough requirements as it is, and most students have a pretty good background in the history of America. Even if every student doesn't, however, the same philosophy that Mukunda uses to justify an American history requirement can be used to justify studies in philosophy, ethics, classics, economics, or any other discipline that "would be nice" for students to know...
...first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln spoke to a nation darkened by the breaking storm of the Civil War. He closed, "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." In those days, long before the advent of mass education, Lincoln had no doubt that Americans maintained a communal memory of their history...
...pride. "We fight like cats and dogs." Prominent Republicans with a cause include Charles Canady, father of the English-as-the-official-language bill, and Barr, an anti-gun control crusader with close ties to the National Rifle Association. On the left are some of Congress's strongest civil rights partisans, including Waters and Texan Sheila Jackson Lee. The committee has had some low-key bipartisan successes in areas such as court reform and defining intellectual-property rights in the cyber age, but they haven't got as much attention as the politically dangerous wedge issues that make...
...spread, "we weren't even sure it was legal." It is. In 1990 the Supreme Court overwhelmingly sustained the constitutionality of a 1984 law permitting student prayer on school grounds if the prayer is not adult-led or during class hours. But the event still bothers some civil libertarians. Barry Lynn, head of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, says that "technically it is legal. But it is a fiction that this is a spontaneous outpouring of activity. It is part of a well-orchestrated campaign, a back-door effort by adults to create evangelism on public...
Mack found his inspiration for public service while in Atlanta during the height of the civil rights movement...