Hugh Fitzgerald: Western Civ and Its Diss Contents

Jihad Watch ^ | August 31st 2017 | Hugh Fitzgerald

[Jacquerie]

Looking for a teaching job in history?

Of the nineteen positions listed first today, 17 were for teaching jobs. Of those 17 teaching jobs, six, or more than a third, had to do with Arabs and/or Islam.

Another six had to do with African-American Literature, African-American History, African-American Studies, Black Studies/Critical Race Studies, Black Studies, African-American Politics.

Nothing about Colonial America, the Road to Independence, the Revolutionary War, the Constitution, the Westward Expansion, the Era of Good Feelings, the Civil War, Manifest Destiny, the Great Trusts and the Sherman Act, the Immigration From Europe (1880-1925), nothing about the Depression, the New Deal, World War II, America as a World Power, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and so on.

Completely absent, too, from this sampling, is the history of Europe, from Classical Antiquity to the 21st century. No Greek city-states, no Periclean Athens, no Peloponnesian War, no Roman Empire to both rise and fall, no Dark Ages, no Middle Ages, no Crusades, no Renaissance, no Reformation, no Discovery and Conquest of the New World, no Louis XIV and the French Empire, no British Empire, no French Revolution, no Napoleonic Wars, no Revolutions of 1848, no Industrial Revolution, no Rise of Democracy, no……..well, you get the picture.

Europe has fallen, it appears, pretty much off the academic map; its place has been taken by Diversity and Inclusion neither of which appears to include, or is made diverse by, courses about boring old white Europeans, and Europe itself is in steady retreat as a subject of study in our universities.

Meanwhile, Islamic and Arabic studies appear to be very much in academic fashion.

[Jacquerie]

The title is awful. This article highlights how Islam and Black Studies largely supplants the study of Western Civ and American History at our universities.

"Horrible nations have horrible religions" - C.S. Lewis

[Fiddlstix]

[LS]

I have said this for years: at the U of Dayton, even tbough it was on the books, no one even taught the Am Rev/early republic for a decade.

I was the last -—4 years before I quit—to teach the Civil War.

[hanamizu]

Google “American scientists” and “American Inventors” and you’ll see why there is such a need for black studies.

[Ben Ficklin]

Hugh Fitzgerald is a liar.

Notice how he words its.

Also, simply, plug into a Google search: College history teaching jobs.

And if you are looking for that job, plug into Google: American Revolution/early republic teaching jobs

[GSWarrior]

How about Western Civilization and its discotheques?

[PGalt]

Thanks very much for posting, Jacquerie. Thanks for all the great comments - here and at jihadwatch.

HOORAY Hugh Fitzgerald. Thank you, sir.

Anti-civilization ALERT! Indoctrination centers ALERT!

BUMP-TO-THE-TOP!

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't know what job listing he was quoting from...it has been a long time since I was looking for a History job (then it was the AHA's "Perspectives" and The Chronicle of Higher Education, but that was in pre-internet days). Most of the jobs don't seem to be in History Departments.