http://www.thompsonwerk.com/2009/09/vindication/ Uniting History and the Web Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.thompsonwerk.com/2009/09/vindication/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Robert Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:46:51 +0000 http://www.thompsonwerk.com/?p=549#comment-187 Military history, at least in the US, has always been equated with people who can recite gun calibers and how many bullets were fired at Gettysburg. In the last few decades, the field has changed drastically. War and Society studies are more than one dimensional battlefield examinations. Other historians, however, rarely give notice to any of those changes and chose to ignore military history as a legitimate field. The lack of respect for the field was one of the reasons why I went to Canada to get my MA. Fortunately the War and Society community in Canada introduced me to US institutions that were striving to legitimize the field. Military history, at least in the US, has always been equated with people who can recite gun calibers and how many bullets were fired at Gettysburg. In the last few decades, the field has changed drastically. War and Society studies are more than one dimensional battlefield examinations. Other historians, however, rarely give notice to any of those changes and chose to ignore military history as a legitimate field. The lack of respect for the field was one of the reasons why I went to Canada to get my MA. Fortunately the War and Society community in Canada introduced me to US institutions that were striving to legitimize the field.

]]> http://www.thompsonwerk.com/2009/09/vindication/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Ross Mahoney Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:53:32 +0000 http://www.thompsonwerk.com/?p=549#comment-184 Well thats good news. I'm afraid though that the state of Military History has always been worse than here in the UK. I think the emergence of War Studies as an interdisciplinary subject in the 60's has aided its place in British academia. Though 9/11 and GWOT has had a similar effect here with an increase in the number of programmes around. Well thats good news. I’m afraid though that the state of Military History has always been worse than here in the UK. I think the emergence of War Studies as an interdisciplinary subject in the 60′s has aided its place in British academia. Though 9/11 and GWOT has had a similar effect here with an increase in the number of programmes around.

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