Accepted Quote by Paul Johnson

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

— Sherman Alexie

Most academic historians accept that historians' own circumstances demand that they tell the story in a particular way, of course. While people wring their…

— Michelle Dean

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make…

— Gerry Adams

“Revisionist history can be a tricky thing. Time passes, memories fade, oral history muddies, and transgressions, while sometimes subconsciously, are conveniently rewritten. It would…

— Yvette Manessis Corporon

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

— George W. Bush

“Historical revisionists find what they set out to find.”

— Gregg Frazer

The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he…

— Georg Brandes

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“By trying to understand the past on its own terms, the historian treats it with integrity rather than manipulating it or superimposing his or…

— John Fea

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

— John Lewis Gaddis

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

— Edward Gibbon

“...history is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse. And therein lie its strengths. Eclecticism is sometimes treated as…

— Ludmilla Jordanova