“From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has been the ultimate question in its politics. The one that triggers rage and sorrow; the one that asks is the price of blood too dear? Or, if it is to stay true to its convictions, does America have no coice but to put its lives on the line?” IfsDoeHas BeensWarAmericaFightingAsksFatherLinesHistoryBloodSorrowUltimateElectionDearConvictionRageCivil WarFoundingTriggersAmerican Civil WarStay TrueUltimate Questions Author:Simon Schama
“To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that it does no more than recycle patriotic pieties unsuited to a global marketplace, would be an act of appallingly self-inflicted collective memory loss.” DoeSelfWould BeMemoriesLossHistoryBritishCollectivesPatrioticSuspicionMarketplacePietyBritish HistoryMemory LossIrrelevanceSelf InflictedCollective Memory Book:A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603 Source: A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603
