We are advantage evangelists on behalf of the study of history. And one of our judges in a conversation today began talking about a High School Teacher he had had when he was 14 or 15 years old. And that teacher, and teachers of adolescents are the Unsung Heroes and heroines of our profession. Thats when you plant an abiding, lifelong affection and even addiction to history. One to have historical muses has been sadly, neglected in the American Academy the american university, for a generation. And one of the ideas of our founders, one of whom i will introduce to you in a moment was that something that the h. F. Guggenheim family could go to arrest could do to arrest this malady and reverse it, is support an annual prize for the best work of military history in english during the preceding year. Finish and that is why we are here this evening. History, as written by practitioners of it who have produced works that indicate enlightened research, who write gracefully, who have in the bac
I am awfully happy to welcome the of plot back thank you. All of you to this gathering and this event. Stephen ambrose once said that hed been struck by how many Army Veterans of the campaign in europe, 19441945, had become teachers. He made the obvious link, which partly needs explication before audience like this but consider the chronology. If you were a 20 year old rifleman in the forest, you were born in 1924. You are now 90, and if you have become a professor or teacher, you probably have left the active practice of your profession around 1975 or 1980, give or take a few years. Your education was underwritten by the g. I. Bill, and yours was a generation hospitable, at the very least, to the study of war and of military history. A successor generation of men and women in college, in the later 1960s and 70s whose experience may or may not have included service in vietnam, people now in their 60s and 70s, have furnished a large cadre of professors, administrators in universities. T
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