Friendship Quote by Yvette Manessis Corporon

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

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

— Sherman Alexie

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

— Gregg Frazer

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

“History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.”

— Terry Goodkind

“You don't think history gets rewritten, sometimes?”

— Tamora Pierce

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

“On one occasion she had spoken heatedly about the French Revolution, saying it had been little better than the Nazis. Her great-aunt responded by…

— Imre Kertész

“Our history, America’s history, has been so heavily edited. In history classes, we don’t really go into full discussions about the past. People, struggles,…

— Janelle Gray

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

“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.”

— Terry Nardin

“My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined.”

— Penelope Lively