Goals

As required by the class that I created this blog for, my first blog post is a statement of my career aspirations and possibilities. 

My goal is to become a military historian in the realm of public history. By this I mean that I wish to find work at a historic site or museum that is related to military history. While I would prefer to work in a military history museum as opposed to working at a historic site, both are appealing to me. Modern military history is my main area of interest, but I love any era of military history, and naval history for that matter, which I have also considered seeking a career in. There are plenty of opportunities for work as a military historian when it comes to historic sites, due to battlefield sites from the Revolutionary War and the US Civil War. The US National Park Service oversees a large number of military history sites, including Gettysburg National Military Park, Manassas National Battlefield Park, and the Aleutian World War II National Historic Area. There are also opportunities for a military historian within the US military as a civilian. There also other museums that are not run by either the National Park Service or the military. One example of an independent museum is the American Armored Foundation Tank Museum located in Danville, VA. I don't want to become a military historian simply because I have a strange fascination with warfare and military equipment, although I do. I want to help to educate the people of the United States about warfare and the reasons behind many of the wars that the United States has been in and why they turned out the way that they did.

For the record, check out the AAF Tank Museum in Danville, it's awesome.