Looks like the % of history PhDs in faculties peaked in 2003, the year of the War in Iraq kicked off, ironic. But that also means that the writing has been on the wall for two decades now. Like the author, I'm curious as to where the excess PhDs ended up at - are they all in think tanks?

Placement rates by dissertation titles is amusing but seems like a pretty superficial analysis, at first glance.

> But his topic–the manufacture of computer chips–seemed so far from anything likely to be written in a history department

Well, maybe that's a problem.