I suspect that there are multiple factors at work that explain why the number of undergraduate history majors has dropped in recent years as well as the decline in course enrollments and funding for the discipline. Whatever the answer is (and I don’t claim to have an answer) the reason has little to do with a failure on the part of academic historians t…
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