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How studying the old drawings and writings of kids can change our view of history

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imageIn the late 19th century, three brothers from New Hampshire drew uniforms for the military troops of their imaginary world.Amherst College

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

This line, from 1 Corinthians, still sums up how we tend...

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