Christopher Hitchens - Why Americans Are Not Taught History pdf torrent

This stellar article from the November 1998 edition of HARPER\'S magazine deserves wider dissemination. In it, Hitchens notes the wretched state of historical education, and goes on to describe the reasons for it. If anyone reading this teaches or is in any way involved in education (or knows someone who is), you\'d be doing us all a favor to read it and pass it along. The article is in PDF form, and can be found at

http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/readings/hitchens_goodbye.pdf