How well do colleges and universities integrate military history into their curricula?
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Bookstores and TV testify to the tremendous popularity of military history with the general public, but the subject is often shortchanged on campus. The National Association of Scholars has gathered scholars to discuss the need to include military history in the liberal arts -- and the liberal arts in the education of military officers. The results are in Arms and the Mind: The Military and the Liberal Arts, a special issue of the journal Academic Questions.
Contributors include:- Lt. Gen. Josiah Bunting III - “Why Military History?”
- John A. Lynn II - “Breaching the Walls of Academe: The Purposes, Problems, and Prospects of Military History”
- Mark Moyar - “Vietnam: Historians at War”
- Barry Strauss - “Military Education: Models from Antiquity”
- LTC Robert L. Bateman - “The Army and Academic Culture”
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