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Guest columnist Allen Woods: Social amnesia

In 1905, George Santayana wrote that โ€œThose who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.โ€ In the 1970s, historian Russell Jacoby reexamined the American reluctance and rejection of remembering, and learning from, past events, calling it โ€œsocial amnesia.โ€ His 1975 book suggests โ€œ … society has lost its memory, and with it, its […]

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