Posted on 01/31/2021 12:23:09 PM PST by yoe
[snip]Now, notice a contradiction. War is also a curse, responsible for untold deaths. Humans should do everything possible to mitigate it. And even if scientists cannot promise a vaccine, the obvious place to start working against future conflicts is by researching the causes and courses of past ones.
Yet in centers of learning across North America, the study of the past in general, and of wars in particular, is in spectacular eclipse. History now accounts for a smaller share of undergraduate degrees than at any time since 1950. Whereas in 1970, 6% of American male and 5% of female students were history majors, the respective percentages are now less than 2% and less than 1%, respectively.
[snip]Paul Kennedy of Yale, author of one of the best-selling history books of all time, “The Rise and Fall of The Great Powers,” is among many historians who deplore what is, or rather is not, going on. He observed to me that while some public universities, such as Ohio State and Kansas State, have strong program in the history of war, “It’s in the elite universities that the subject has gone.”
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Until some "African American men and women who have attained the rank of Admiral in the Navy or General in the Army or Air Force"....want their stories told....
So now not just holocaust denial but WW2/WW1 denial as well? No Korea, no VN? Crazy times.
A generation, or generations, of highly educated who have no ideas of the past as they have never learned any of it. But they will be well steeped in identity politics and the social ... sciences.
Next, Napoleon was a Trump supporter.
That’s why the Left can get away with calling anyone opposed to them “Hitler”, because they know most people only have a superficial knowledge, at best, of who Hitler really was.
Proud history major here.
Did me no good regarding employment, but I’m glad I took the time. In four years of college, I had three or four really good instructors. The rest were fluff. One or two were downright weird. One was an avowed communist.
They all hated Ronald Reagan.
I learned to write in college. I learned how to research effectively; where to look and how to cite sources.
I was an “older” student; graduated when I was 50 or so. I went to school with discipline most students didn’t have.
Like I stated, I’m glad I did it.
Until some “African American men, transsexuals, bisexuals, gays, and women who have attained the rank of Admiral in the Navy or General in the Army or Air Force”....want their stories told....
Or newly annointed SecDefs?
I could care less about the percentage of History degrees granted each year.
I want to see high school students with a firm understanding of both US history and World history. And not the PC versions of them, i.e. “Great African-American Heroes in Scandinavian History”, or “Women Navigators who enabled Cook, Magellan, Columbus and Vasco De Gama to make their Discoveries” or “Closet Trannies among the Signers of the Declaration of Independence”.
I dispair watching those YouTube campus interviews wherein college students do not know who fought in the Civil War, or who the Colonies rebelled against, or what century was WWII fought in.
What is the significance of the Magna Carta?
The US is a Republic; what does that mean?
Explain each of the Rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
From where do these Rights come?
ARRRRRRGH!
I was a history major. Graduated in 1971. I was very well educated. Back then there was no cover up or rationalizations about American history. I remember like it was yesterday when our deeply respected professor asked the class for characteristics of Americans. One Nebraskan boy answered peace loving. The professor replied WWWWHHHHHATTT?
The Left must destroy history, yo, just saying.
Woody Hayes taught US History at Ohio State, while the Head football coach there, out of passion for the subject, and he was a solid Republican, back when that still meant something.
I was the Sam Kinneson version of the student. Instructors generally hated me. Too bad. My tuition $$$ was as green as the snowflake next to me.
I was a history major but became a Unix administrator. When I solved problems, I’d attach screen shots or log entries as footnotes or proof that I discovered the root cause.
I just love that look he gives after the ditzy blonde gives the “popular version” of what went on there.
History must be removed. How else are they going to insert their own. 1984 is the game plan.
Or “Year Zero”, like the Khmer Rouge.
If you want to speak to an ignoramus, talk to someone who has a BS/BA degree in Peace Studies.
These same mental midgets will simultaneously disparage anyone who has attended War College. [I know, I am being unfair to midgets]
I think those are perhaps the most important things that college teaches, regardless of major. In high school, the answers you need to do well are more or less on the surface. In college, you have to dig, and learning to dig is the key.
Gee, I thought I was an "older" college graduate, but I was only 30, not 50.
I think at my age, 70, I might be able to take classes free. I've thought of taking history classes just to be a pain in the ass in the classes by telling the other students the truth when the instructors are spewing bullshite.
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