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[randomness]

It does catch me up short when people who I consider well-educated show both a lack of knowledge of and a concern for history.

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[lillibet.livejournal.com]

As Regis would say, wait till they find themselves re-enacting the Battle of Hastings over breakfast!

[muffyjo]

As someone with a miserable head for details, I can certainly find wiggle room for the under-informed aspects, but a lack of concern for history, a belief that it has no bearing...that is as close to a sin in my world as I think you can get.

[sarakate.livejournal.com]

Do you have resources you'd recommend for those of us who had a woefully inadequate history education? I'm not bad on US history, and pretty decent on the history of England (I actually own and have read Churchill's 4-volume history), but the rest of the world, not so much. I'd have liked to have taken more in college, but my degree program always stuck me with the world's oddest schedule and conflicted with everything, and studying on one's own, it's hard to know what sources are both interesting and reliable.