GDG- Re: Demise of Military History

[Biggsk at aol.com]

Robert Lawrence writes:

>>>>NRO has jumped into the fray  again
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTljZTM4N2EwZTRiMmQ3MmNiZTE0Yzg5YzRjNmE
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He is absolutely correct sadly.
 
Several college professors that I know and have known, all of whom are/were  
military historians, do not teach any longer and some of the reasons that is 
so  is due to the anti-military stance taken on most college campuses today by 
many  of the faculty.
 
I have looked over catalogs of many college history departments and  
exceedingly few list any aspect of military history unless it is a social  aspect.  
Our own Austin Peay State University, which just added a Military  History 
degree program for undergrad and grad school (we are an Army town so a  lot of 
officers go there) and they still do not have professors there that teach  the 
Napoleonic Wars or some other important aspects of military history - and  even 
some of the professors that I know that teach there (many of whom belong to  
our CWRT) do not teach military history as a primary course - but teach some  
aspect of it (like Greece and Rome).
 
But let's get into other social histories, gender history, labor history,  
etc. - all of which are prominent in the college catalogs that I see when I do  
research in college libraries, and they have those classes in abundance!
 
Those that have taught Civil War history that retire are not replaced quite  
often - and one or two that I know stuck around just to teach that class - 
which  "sold out" far faster than anything else in the history department - just 
to  make sure that it does not die.
 
This is indeed a sad case and, even sadder, it shows little signs of  
changing for the better.
 
Greg Biggs



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