207.137.28.254 Comments History isn't a field where any one person can sit back and degree what may or may not be important or worthy of support.
Historians tend to study what they find interesting.
There has been a trend since WWII away from the traditional focus on Presidents, politics and war toward social, ethnic and other diverse subjects within the field of history. As long as students and facualty are interested in Ethnic Studies, universities should attempt to offer relevent corses. The value of any area of historical study is open to debate. Ethnic Studies are a legitimate area of studay and no more or less valid than any other.