Assignment for the '70's

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W5 ;r HEN William L. Langer addressed us in I957 he deplored tendency of historians become buried in their own conservatism. ... We must be ready, from time time, he said, to take flyers into unknown... . As our next he urged historians use the concepts and findings of modern psychology and psychoanalysis.' Since I957 this assignment has had influence because its author perceived and encouraged a latent possibility in historical thinking. As one of Mr. Langer's many students I wish borrow his term and suggest an assignment that I am sure is already in minds of many of us and yet perhaps can be more explicitly formulated and more clearly recognized. This assignment for '70's is presented within a rather stark framework of three assumptions. I assume first that we have entered an era of

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