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- From: crdunlea@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Christopher R. Dunlea)
- Subject: Re: Does knowing history make any difference in policy?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.015305.17894@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 01:53:05 EST
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- In article <1992Dec18.135121.2895@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> akerr@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Austin Kerr) writes:
- >Surely some of the persons on this list who are not U.S. citizens, or who are
- >expert in the history of public policy in other nations, might have interesting
- >observations about the role, if any, that a scholarly understanding of history
- >has played in the shaping of current policies.
- >
- >Austin Kerr
- >Ohio State University
- >kerr.6@osu.edu
-
- Certainly. Among the greatest US Presidents was Woodrow Wilson, by profession
- a university history professor. At a time when the political trend, before
- and after his terms, was to cower and keep America is isolation from the
- events in the world, Wilson proposed his plan for the League of Nations and
- the policy of national self-determination. I like to thing (perhaps it's
- just because I like the idea of an historian as President) that his
- knowledge of European history helped shape his view on ending conflicts
- there.
-
- Chris
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