Learning History From the Great Literature

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Jane Austen would really lose a lot by not marrying Mr. Darcy with Anna Karenina the story is somewhat similar. John Locaj who was one of the you know big American historians especially of the World War II mentions in one of his books he has a small book basically on learn I mean the role of history. He actually uses social needs in his example of learning about historical events from the great literature. Using the great literature to learn about social relations and equality there are these two themes that actually came suddenly to get a simply because as I said I read John Locaj's book so it really we have here lots of ways to learn in America.

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