TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

I just recently found Battlefield Biker through the 15th Military History Carnival. I was pleased to discover a link to a U.S. News article asking the question, “Why Don’t More Colleges Teach Military History?” Go check it out.

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Via the latest History Carnival, I just learned of an excellent article on Academia’s “jihad” against military history. Zenpundit doesn’t necessarily believe military history is being targeted directly, but he does think the “leftist faculty attitudes toward ROTC, American foreign policy and dead white guys” are slowly squeezing military history out. Still, he holds out […]

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I was amused to see Dimitri asking the question, Why on earth would you include an essay on “Lost Cause” historiography in a collection called Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat? I agree. I see several problems with this one. First, could it be because some academic circles (note I said SOME) […]

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