Why-ah, when-ah ah wen ta yoonahverstee back in those thah sixtees, things was ah might lot differn than today, by gaw. Fo one thing, no one nevah taw no femnisms or nuthin bout no coloniah guvmin. Now, in ma day, hiztree was basic'ly ya battles hee-ah and ya battles thay-ah. Slayvree. Hitler. Th'Alamo. An a right lot ah uthahs, I ashure ya. Buh today, hoo-boy, why-ah, ah man's pratically gotta turn on tha ole teevee ta learn a durn thing bout the milterry. So doan give no money ta tha yoonahverstee unless they-ah teach it right.
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Weird. My law school didn't teach military history either. History of law, they had, and probably even a class on laws of warfare or something similar, but not straight up military history. In retrospect, now that I think about it, there was a curious emphasis on viewing everything through a legalistic lens. I feel shortchanged.
But seriously, I kind of doubt that there is an absence of military history within any history department of any size at all. I went to a second-tier public university for my undergrad history degree, and even there you could take everything from American intellectual history to minority- and women-focused history to, yes, military history of various stripes. We had entire courses devoted to specific wars, in fact. I doubt my school was unique in that regard, and this was in the early 90's, which was a while back but not exactly ancient times. We didn't have courses on "Tactics and Strategies of Armored Units from 1916 to the Present," but, then, I didn't go to West Point.
I vote for making "Blog Posts Reinterpreted By Foghorn Leghorn" a recurring feature here.
They can't even get their discussions right. Two hours at D-Day did more than Stalingrad? This makes the priorities clear - they want glorification of American manliness to be taught.
social history for the win,
rowan
Is it me or did that commentary (the one in NR) read like it was ghost-written by Glenn Reynolds?
What do you expect from a guy whose 'favorite historian' is perennial IOZ whipping boy, Victor David ... Hanson.
MB
"Boy's, I say, boy's about as sharp as a bowling ball."
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