Category talk:Aviation historians
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Added this category because it is a highly specialized subset of the category "Historians", and because it is extremely important to world history, because aviation is a fundamental force in history-shaping modern affairs, including exploration, commerce, and war, and in many major developments in science and technology.
Aviation historians are typically quite distinct from historians at large, who tend to be generalists, focused on political and social subtopics of history. By comparison, aviation historians are distinguished, typically, by their exceptional attention to technological developments, the business and industry aspects of the field, and the history subset of war (specificially: aerial warfare), while typically disregarding the broader contexts of social and political developments (except as pertains to aviation-intense specific wars).
Aviation historians generally hold and share a far greater knowledge of the specifics of their field than do historians at large, and thus are a very distinct subset of historians, and specialize (usually exclusively) in this important and dynamic branch of history.