<p><span class="deck">If the historians themselves are no longer interested in defining the structure of the American past, how can the citizenry understand its heritage? The author examines the disrepair in which the professors have left their subject.</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>
<p>Although numerous studies show a failure in the teaching of our history and values of democracy, there are models to rebuild the civic bargains by which democracy survives.</p>