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Any Nation That Expects To Be Ignorant And Free," Jefferson Said, "expects What Never Was And Never Will Be." And If The Gap Between The Educated And The Uneducated In America Continues To Grow As It Is In Our Time, As Fast As Or Faster Than The Gap Between The Rich And The Poor, The Gap Between The Educated And The Uneducated Is Going To Be Of Greater Consequence And The More Serious Threat To Our Way Of Life. We Must Not, By Any Means, Misunderstand That.

No Harm's Done To History By Making It Something Someone Would Want To Read.

According To Adams, Jefferson Proposed That He, Adams, Do The Writing [pf The Declaration Of Independence], But That He Declined, Telling Jefferson He Must Do It. Why?" Jefferson Asked, As Adams Would Recount. Reasons Enough," Adams Said. What Can Be Your Reasons?" Reason First: You Are A Virginian And A Virginian Ought To Appear At The Head Of This Business. Reason Second: I Am Obnoxious, Suspected And Unpopular. You Are Very Much Otherwise. Reason Third: You Can Write Ten Times Better Than I Can.

We Are Raising A Generation Of Young Americans Who Are, To A Very Large Degree, Historically Illiterate. It's Not Their Faults. There's No Problem About Enlisting Their Interest In History. None. The Problem Is The Teachers So Often Have No History In Their Background.

Unlike The People You See In Mathew Brady's Photographs From The Civil War, The Men And Women Of The Revolution Seem More Like Characters In A Costume Pageant. And It's A Pageant In Which The Performers Are All Handsome As Stage Actors, With Uniforms And Dress That Are Always Costume Perfect.