The academy may have killed military history, but the demand generated by the general public – the history enthusiasts – should keep it alive and well.
But it is not for everybody. I was assigned Robert Quimby’s The U.S. Army in the War of 1812: An Operational and Command Study (2 vols.) in one of my U.S. history courses at UVA. (For those in the know, it was HIUS 704: The Early American Republic.) That was tough.
