In a new article for Strategika, Prof. Peter Mansoor writes of "Military History in Academia" and says that, "Academic military history in the United States has come a long way since its origins during and after World War II."
 

He states that after the retirement of Prof. Allan R. Millett, who established the Ohio State military history curriculum, "Along with my colleagues—Mark Grimsley, Joe Guilmartin, Geoffrey Parker, and Jennifer Siegel—I sought to maintain the military history field at Ohio State as one of the best in the nation. It quickly became apparent to me that to prevent the field from disappearing through attrition as had happened earlier at Duke, we would have to generate endowed positions that would exist in perpetuity. Through generous gifts from donors, we accomplished this goal through the creation of two additional chairs in military history and a professorship of World War II history in the adjacent European history field. These four positions will ensure that there will always be a military history field at Ohio State."