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 university’s 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, we’d see that under “military history” there would be shelf after shelf.
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I live about 1800 yards away as the crow flies...southeast of Winstead Hill where Hood had HQ
I’m going to South Carolina this week. I’m going to Ft. Sumter and hopefully to see the Hunley submarine.
can u imagine being on the Hunley?
or a semi submersed ironclad even?
scary
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