The New Republic notices that military history is dying in academia:

Popular taste, in other words, bears out the judgment of Edmund Burke, who quipped–long before the horrors of modern mechanized warfare–that the annals of good deeds would “not afford matter enough to fill ten pages. … War is the matter which fills all History.”
Yet the discipline of history, as it exists in major U.S. universities, seems to have forgotten Burke’s lesson. At Harvard this spring, for instance, only two of 85 history courses focus mainly on war. This is not surprising, because Harvard does not have a single specialist in military history among the 58 members of its history department. Neither does my own history department at Johns Hopkins; just two of our 61 spring courses are principally concerned with war. And so it goes across the country. The current issue of the American Historical Review, the flagship journal of the profession, includes reviews of no less than 194 new history books, only 15 of which, by my count, qualify as military history.

For more, see my article on the subject here.