When sizable portions of a people forget their history, they risk losing contact with their nation’s essence, what its best qualities are, and where it ought to be headed.  They may soon cease to inhabit an independent political entity. There’s evidence that a loss of historical memory is a growing problem in America.  Furthermore, political developments suggest there will be even more problems involving the loss of knowledge about essential American history in the future. One indication that we already face problems with loss of historical memory comes from a YouGov poll, commissioned by the recently established The Victims of Communism Foundation.  The foundation publishes an “Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes towards Socialism.”  The first such report appeared on Monday, October 16, 2016.  Jamie Gregora wrote about that report in the October 17 issue of The Daily Signal.  Most of that report deals the youngest birth...(Read Full Article)