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I am teaching Western Civilization at George Mason University and ironically had assigned my students a selection from Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, in which he quotes Pericles' oration after Marathon. The relevant passage that caused the greatest discussion was: 39. Then, again, our military training is in many respects superior to that of our adversaries. Our city is thrown open to the world, and we never expel a foreigner or prevent him from seeing or learning anything of which the secret if revealed to the enemy might profit him. My challenge this week will be a corrective to the textbook we are using, which includes a particularly decontextualized passage on Islam and conversion. Given the problems with this passage at this moment, I find myself faced with an acute "teachable moment." T. Mills Kelly Coordinator for Western Civilization Programs Department of History and Art History and Center for History and New Media George Mason University http://chnm.gmu.edu/history/faculty/kelly
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