Why is military history in retreat at universities?
In 2019, Trip Advisor rated the Canadian War Museum the second-most important destination in Ottawa, just after the nation’s parliament buildings.
The museum’s more than 500,000 on-site visitors, and tens of thousands more online, as well as travelling exhibitions across Canada, are all signs that Canadians, like their counterparts in the United States, Britain, Israel and New Zealand, have an almost insatiable interest in military history.
“And yet,” says Tim Cook, an award-winning and best-selling historian at the Canadian War Museum, “you’d think, with the interest in the museum, my books and those of people like Jack Granatstein and Ted Barris, the two universities in the city and those across the country would have military history programmes instead of a smattering of courses.
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