We are now as far from WWII as WWII was from the Civil War. As in generations past, Americans must work to learn the lessons of history when they can no longer simply be recalled.

Recently, some evangelical churches have apologized for the Doctrine of Discovery, a contested fifteenth-century Catholic Spanish theory that Christian explorers could claim and take land previously unknown to themselves if it was ruled by non-Christians, a theory the United States Supreme Court falsely claimed was a universal aspect of international law.