"Popular taste, in other words, bears out the judgment of Edmund Burke, who quipped--long before the horrors of modern mechanized warfare--that the annals of good deeds would 'not afford matter enough to fill ten pages. ... War is the matter which fills all History.'
"Yet the discipline of history, as it exists in major U.S. universities, seems to have forgotten Burke's lesson."
David Bell in The New Republic ponders a decline of military history at universities.
As does Patricia Cohen in The New York Times two years later.
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