Bret Devereaux

and "we don't talk nearly enough in military history about food." And that's just not an accurate representation of where the field is now - or really where the field has been in the last 40+ years. For one, we talk a lot about food; professionals talk logistics, after all 2/7

I've picked up from previous Crash Course episodes (particularly US History19: Battles of the Civil War) that the crash course team takes a pretty dim view of military history generally, viewing it mostly through the lens of 'drum & trumpet' (='generals & battles') history. 3/7

But that's just not where the field is. Even pop-mil-hist since 1950 (and esp. since 1976) has leaned heavily into questions about the common soldiers and their experience. That trend is much more pronounced in the scholarship. Lots of social/org. mil-hist going on 4/7