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Traditional military history continues to fascinate buffs and reenactors, and is still taught at military academies. The focus is on battles and heroic soldiers. In the U.S. Civil War battles have been preserved, remembered, or reconstructed in thousands of reenactments, memorials, paintings, prints, photographs, motion pictures, television programs, novels, videos, and computer games.<ref>Kenneth W. Noe, George C. Rable and Carol Reardon. “Battle Histories: Reflections on Civil War Military Studies”  ''Civil War History'' 53#3 2007. pp 229+.</ref> Scholars are generally quite negative, because as historian Edward Tabor Linenthal explains about Gettysburg, "Fixation on the battlefield itself played out in the extreme in battle reenactments, celebrated American martial courage and ignored the more profound legacy of the battle and the war."  Fascination with reenactment and antiquarianism, had given traditional military history a bad name among academics, who are contemptuous of the "Which regiment took the Peach Orchard?" approach to history."<ref>Quoted in Noe (2007)</ref>

Traditional military history continues to fascinate buffs and reenactors, and is still taught at military academies. The focus is on battles and heroic soldiers. In the U.S. Civil War battles have been preserved, remembered, or reconstructed in thousands of reenactments, memorials, paintings, prints, photographs, motion pictures, television programs, novels, videos, and computer games.<ref>Kenneth W. Noe, George C. Rable and Carol Reardon. “Battle Histories: Reflections on Civil War Military Studies”  ''Civil War History'' 53#3 2007. pp 229+.</ref> Scholars are generally quite negative, because as historian Edward Tabor Linenthal explains about Gettysburg, "Fixation on the battlefield itself played out in the extreme in battle reenactments, celebrated American martial courage and ignored the more profound legacy of the battle and the war."  Fascination with reenactment and antiquarianism, had given traditional military history a bad name among academics, who are contemptuous of the "Which regiment took the Peach Orchard?" approach to history."<ref>Quoted in Noe (2007)</ref>

==New Military History movement==

==New Military History movement==