This item, reported by Inside Higher Ed, is gratifying:

Miller’s article and the subsequent widespread discussion of military history and academe may have prompted the issue in Madison. Last month, Wisconsin’s history department began advertising its search to fill its endowed chair in American military history.

Here’s the context:

In September, John J. Miller’s article, “Sounding Taps,” for National Review launched a widespread discussion. Ten years ago, Miller pointed out, the historian Stephen Ambrose donated $250,000 to endow a chair at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin. The chair in American military history was to be named for his mentor, William B. Hesseltine. Subsequently, Ambrose urged others to contribute to the chair’s endowment and, before his death in 2002, he contributed another $250,000. Ultimately, the chair was renamed the Ambrose-Hesseltine Chair and it is endowed at over $1 million. Yet, charged Miller, the University of Wisconsin’s history department has dragged its feet in conducting a search to fill it. That story, he said, demonstrated the hostility of historians, generally, to the field of military history and contributes to its general decline in American colleges and universities.
Ohio State’s Mark Grimsley charged Miller with crying “Crocodile Tears” over military history’s grave. Miller was primarily interested in scoring points in the culture wars, said Grimsley, and the field is more robustly healthy than Miller allowed. His own department, for example, will fill two newly endowed chairs in military history in the next five years. Grimsley’s reply to Miller touched off further discussions in the blogosphere, with theaters at Grimsley’s Blog Them Out of the Stone Age, the historians’ group blog, Cliopatria,National Review’s Phi Beta Cons, Eric Alterman’s Altercation, and The New Republic’s Open University. Those discussions of military history and the academy extended beyond Miller and Grimsley to include many others. The fate of the Ambrose-Hesseltine Chair at the University of Wisconsin was largely lost in the broader discussion of military history in academe, but the discussion may have prompted its fate. In response to Miller’s questions, a spokesman for Wisconsin’s history department admitted that some of his colleagues were still less than enthusiastic about filling the chair, but denied that there was any hesitation about filling it because of the charges of plagiarism in Stephen Ambrose’s work. The department, he said, was committed to filling the chair in the future.