History is a defunct academic pursuit.
It’s not defunct. It’s been murdered. It didn’t just fizzle out, this was active and intentional. These people have an agenda to promote and no stone gets left unturned.
As has been said about journalists, these people are activists disguised as historians.
https://www.cvltnation.com/brutal-drawings-from-the-gulag/
Almost everything has become defunct since the 1970’s when the “long march through the institutions” began
Correct. PC Revisionists took over the History faculty starting in the 70s and 80s. They themselves were products of the 1960s. As they rose through the ranks, they started imposing a rigid orthodoxy on the hiring and granting of tenure in history departments in universities throughout the country. Where previously there was a lively debate among historians about how to interpret various historical events, now a rigid orthodoxy has been imposed.
This orthodoxy subscribes to various tenants of Leftism such as “all cultures are equal”, “the Civil War was about slavery”, “all that’s wrong with the world is the fault of white christian heterosexual christian men”, etc.