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Canada Day celebrates our nation’s history since 1867. We remember explorers’ economic opportunity and the defence of liberty. Let’s celebrate our diverse past, partnership, and optimism that built our vibrant nation. Happy Canada Day!
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Yet in centers of learning across North America, the study of the past in general, and of wars in particular, is in spectacular eclipse. History now accounts for a smaller share of undergraduate degrees than at any time since 1950. Whereas in 1970, 6% of American male and 5% of female students were history majors,…
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From: Daniel Hannan What Magna Carta initiated, rather, was constitutional government—or, as the terse inscription on the American Bar Association’s stone puts it, “freedom under law.” It takes a real act of imagination to see how transformative this concept must have been. The law was no longer just an expression of the will of…
