5 Simple Ways to Learn Our Country’s History and Help Save the American Republic

Park Rangers set wreaths of flowers inside the Jefferson Memorial as a boy reads inscriptions of Thomas Jefferson's speeches and writings, in Washington in a file photo. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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In 1983, the “A Nation at Risk” report, which investigated academic performance in U.S. schools, famously declared that “if an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”