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A B.A. for the G.I.… Why?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

J.M. Stephen Peeps
J.M. Stephen Peeps*
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Stanford University
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Scholars and students thrive on “explanations,” those taut progressions from cause to effect which convince us how something became history. But as luck would have it, historical explanations tend to come in different dimensions. Some are excruciatingly comprehensive. Others stress either cause or effect—but rarely both. The latter sort typifies the explanation most commonly offered for the emergence of education benefits (Title II) as a major focus in the Veterans Assistance Act of 1944.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , Winter 1984 , pp. 513 - 525
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Copyright © 1984 by History of Education Society 

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