Military history may be struggling in the academy, but the National Endowment for the Humanities has spent roughly $10 million on it over the last five years — everything from $500,000 for a center at the Virginia Military Institute to $2,000 to study Irish immigrants who fought in the Mexican War. There’s also a gift of more than $1 million to help produce a TV documentary on Americans in the Second World War, $1 million for a show on the French and Indian War, and $600,000 for a program on the looting of art treasures during the Third Reich and WW2.