Our Universities are getting more and more Liberal. This is causing a big change when it comes to what is being taught. There are now more gender studies and anthropology courses where they talk of how the country is set up to keep minorities down. But on top of these extreme views, many colleges are now avoiding/ if not refusing to teach about past wars. Apparently, they can’t handle courses with substance…
” …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.”
“The revulsion from war history may derive not so much from students’ unwillingness to explore the violent past, but from academics’ reluctance to teach, or even allow their universities to host, such courses. Some dub the subject “warnography,” and the aversion can extend to the study of international relations. Less than half of all history departments now employ a diplomatic historian, against 85% in 1975. As for war, as elderly scholars retire from posts in which they have studied it, many are not replaced: the roles are redefined. ”
“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.”
“Can you imagine Chicago, or Berkeley, or Princeton having War Studies departments?” he asked. “Military history is the most noxious of the ‘dead white male’ subjects, and there’s also a great falling away in the teaching of diplomatic, colonial and European political history.”
Kennedy notes that war studies are highly popular with students, alumni and donors, “but the sticking point is with the faculty — where perhaps only a small group are openly hostile, but a larger group don’t think the area is important enough.”
“Tami Davis Biddle, a professor at the U.S. Army War College, has written, “Unfortunately, many in the academic community assume that military history is simply about powerful men — mainly white men —fighting each other and/or oppressing vulnerable groups.”
We saw last summer how much Libs care about history as they tore down many historical monuments all because the people were a product of their culture at that time. Libs really need good history courses to make them understand how we have changed. So they can appreciate people for their contribution they made to the world as opposed to canceling anyone who doesn’t fit now. Lincoln freed the slaves, but Libs focus on how he didn’t like Native Americans when the United States was at war with many different tribes during his presidency.
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