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The Problem With Modern History

Why do historians hate our past?

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Jun 03, 2025
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Historic literacy is at all-time lows. In a recent poll conducted by Forbes, only 15% of 8th-graders scored at grade level in U.S. history.

This grim statistic shouldn’t surprise anyone who has paid attention to online discourse, though. Our culture continuously enforces a mindset that it’s always year zero, and anything that predates five minutes ago is…

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