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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