Posted on 03/18/2010 6:12:31 AM PDT by C19fan
Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Victor Davis Hanson, military historian and author of Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern, contrasts the recent collapse of military history as an academic discipline with the abiding interest in the subject displayed by ordinary Americans.
If we walked right over to the campus bookstore or looked in the universitys catalog of classes, we would see gender studies this, gender studies that, anything with studies leisure studies, race studies, environmental studies. Military history? Not there. But if we walked right down to Borders Books, a commercial enterprise, wed see that under military history there would be shelf after shelf.
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Many nontraditional Schools offer Strengths in Military History as part of a history degree. Many of these schools posses the same Regional Accreditation as major universities. I suspect they offer military history because they make a fortune from military Tuition Assistance and the GI Bill. As a young Marine the history of the Corps was taught and stressed to the point that 30 years later from memory I can recall personalities and data on the Corps history. When I made Chief, we spent hours on U.S. Navy history (should happen sooner, Navy drops the ball here). I suspect history, especially military history is more popular with military members. Thus the non-trad schools offer a course of study in military history. When I took my graduate degree, ironically the only military history I had was in the economics courses.
When I joined the Navy in 1951, I received a softcover book about two inches thick titled “Your Navy”, wherein they went through the history and heroes of the USN down through the years. Great stuff - gave it to my grandson.
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I have whole shelves of the stuff. Its my second favorite reading material right after Science Fiction (military SF and space opera, of course!).
One school has a major MA Military History, Norwich University. Also offered on line. Norwich happens to be one of the oldest engineering schools as well. Any besides West Point older?
I studied this fascinating woman
Helena Blavatsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky
Her premise was how could she write on how a man thinks, without being one. So she hit the high seas as a man for 12 years and found Theosophy, which I also took a course in in 78’
Theosophical University Press Online
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/tup-onl.htm
Thought this may suit your forum well -g-
I suppose I can depend on VDH to make the point, but pretty much all of history is, in one way or another, the history of warfare.
They want to turn all western males into castrati to serve third world overlords and Muslims.
Blavatsky was a con artist, which of course makes her interesting right there. :’) People interested in Edgar Cayce might find some, uh, similar ideas in Blavatsky (Cayce in his alleged trances repeated some of Blavatsky’s stuff).
Thanks!
Too many books, not enough time. :’)
Happy are they who have no history. Bitter and violent are they who make up some b.s. and call it history. :’)
“And I’m also surprised that History is still taught in colleges and universities since most of history has been conflicts and wars.”
Also because it demonstrates the utter stupidity of leftist thought.
That is a good source...may I plug Landmark Booksellers here in Franklin too while we’re at it?
http://www.landmarkbooksellers.com/
I have to watch myself spending like a drunken sailor in there...
Some of the parks have decent bookstores and rosters too actually.
When I was in school you could see the Marxist influence on some historians feeling military history was unimportant because economic factors would determine the outcome. I never bought that. It’s like the old saying about sports prognosticators and handicappers, sometimes you just need to actually play the game.
I could start my own library with the books I bought in Gettysburg. I'm planning on seeing the Carter house in Franklin one of these years.
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