Universities Are Refusing To Teach History Because It's A "Dead White Male Subject"

Magnus McCoy - February 1, 2021 

Our Universities are getting more and more Liberal. This is causing a big change when it comes to what is being taught. There are now more gender studies and anthropology courses where they talk of how the country is set up to keep minorities down. But on top of these extreme views, many colleges are now avoiding/ if not refusing to teach about past wars. Apparently, they can't handle courses with substance...

" ...In centers of learning across North America, the study of the past in general, and of wars in particular, is in spectacular eclipse. History now accounts for a smaller share of undergraduate degrees than at any time since 1950. Whereas in 1970, 6% of American male and 5% of female students were history majors, the respective percentages are now less than 2% and less than 1%, respectively."

"The revulsion from war history may derive not so much from students’ unwillingness to explore the violent past, but from academics’ reluctance to teach, or even allow their universities to host, such courses. Some dub the subject “warnography,” and the aversion can extend to the study of international relations. Less than half of all history departments now employ a diplomatic historian, against 85% in 1975. As for war, as elderly scholars retire from posts in which they have studied it, many are not replaced: the roles are redefined. "........To Read more...