History as sentimental education: a preface to Holy Ground and the destruction of the Kingdom of Kongo.

Civil Rights Journal | January 1, 2002 | Copyright

The mantra about repeating the history one hasn't learned is true riot only for delinquent high school students and pundits quoting Santayana. But it has become by so much the dominant rationale for the historical impulse that we risk neglecting other reasons history repays study: Indeed, the two vast injunctions of the discipline--toward memory and against repetition--are more at odds than we typically recognize. All history is, ultimately, local, specific to a time and place and culture--and in that sense unique. The more one remembers the details of a story, the less clear ...

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