Accurate Quote by Sherman Alexie

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a…

— Paul Johnson

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

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

“Many people believe that right and wrong are fixed absolutes. That is incorrect, they change over time. The job of the historian is primarily…

— Jo Nesbø

“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

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

— Gregg Frazer

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

— Joe Biden

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

— George W. Bush

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

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

— Ron Chernow

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

— John Lewis Gaddis