HIST 3683 Lecture 3: Friday Discussion about Reading 1 and Cold War
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Whats past is prologue. william shakespeare, the tempest (1610) History is what the present chooses to remember about the past. eric fon. If america is to ful ll her destiny then we americans must be pitiless critics of our shortcomings. As i have gotten into middle age, history has seemed less and less about things or ideas or individual persons and more and more about relationships. richard white, The organic machine (1995: the essence of history is about relationships. David dellinger (1915-2004: didn"t want to be apart of the military. Didn"t want to ght against the germans: he thought americans support nazi germany, instead . He refuses to draft into the military. Refused to appear at a draft induction center. Becomes a character in prison: there were about 6000 people like him who didn"t like the war, 12000 conscientious objectors, felt betrayed by his heroes because they said this war was an exception.
