Mr. Hitchcock of Temple University remains unconvinced that there is a zero-sum game however. “How will we write the history of the Iraq war?” he asked. Social pressures, differing cultural and intellectual assumptions will all be included, he said: “We’ll widen our frame of reference, while not losing sight of the remarkable fact that a very small number of people still have the power to lead nations into war.”
I found the quote above in this article on history programs at universities from the New York Times. The article's thesis is that history programs are shifting emphasis away from diplomatic history to more socially acceptable fields like "people's history." What do y'all think?
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