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The article focuses on the concept of revisionist history and how it has been present since the dawn of historical inquiry, challenging the idea that it emerged solely in the 1960s or is associated only with political ideologies. It emphasizes that historical revisionism is an inherent aspect of historical inquiry, highlighting its evolution over millennia and its role in shaping our understanding of the past.

The colonial historiography of Africa renders the continent historyless, oriental, and primitive. This cultural misrepresentation of Africa has dominated Western imagination and influenced the relationship of the West with Africa for a number of decades, while traces of this prejudice still subsist till now. Like other Africanist writings that repudiate jaundiced colonial African historiography, Tade Ipadeola's The Sahara Testaments (2012) offers a literary theorisation for interrogating the historiography through revisionism and temporality. Ipadeola assumes the role of a historical revisionist, making efforts to rectify Western ahistorical perception of Africa through empirical historical events, sites, and panjandrums. He uses the power of poetry to reinvigorate Africa's past, projecting it as a tool to rebuild the future of the continent. As a revisionist, he refuses to accept the traditionalist colonial perspective of African historiography that is pro-West, but calls for a revisit and celebration of Africa's past as a defining moment in the history of a continent relegated to the margins of global economy and development. Drawing on Ipadeola's position, this article contends that Africa's history should reflect triadic temporal linearity, rather than limiting its historical development to then and now, because doing so is self-defeating. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Reviewing the historiography of education provides insights into both the past and present of this growing area of research across the UK and Ireland. In the nineteenth century research reveals a close association with national identities. These were often Whig histories that celebrated the present and emphasised the progressive nature of educational development, sometimes characterised by an 'acts and facts' approach. From the 1960s, it is possible to identify a series of revisionist histories, which diversified further in the coming decades and morphed into the familiar patterns that we can identify today: theoretical and conceptual complexity; a concern with inequalities; an eclectic and widening interest in primary sources; a focus on schooling but moving beyond it, for instance to childhood, welfare and literacy; and a (re)discovery of new topics such as the emotions, senses and identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study does not intend to change the perspective on the publication it refers to, namely Marx's Notes about Romanians, published by the Romanian Academy Publishing-House, in which the famous author - quoting a 19th century French source - records the abuses suffered by the Romanian located within the extra-Carpathian principalities (due to the Tsarist interventionism), as well as in Transylvania (under the pressure of the Hungarian nobility). The publishing of these notes during strained times between the Romanian Labor Party and the other parties in the communist blockgenerated by the more and more apparent orientation of Romanian leaders towards a national politics - was seen, especially by the Soviet and Hungarian communists, as a gesture of defiance of the „friendly countries" and even of revisionism. Consequently, the diplomatic resonances became apparent. The Soviet and the Hungarian responses are the most renown, and both are worthy of the consideration that this study will give it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines several major historical works on the Korean War published since 2000 as it is noticeable that not only have scholars such as Allan Millett and journalists such as David Halberstam failed to understand Cumings' message and intention in The Origins of the Korean War.

An article by Dragiša D. Vasić on drastic examples of the politicization and mythmaking of the Bosniak historical narrative, and polemical essays by Dubravka Stojanović and Husnija Kamberović were published in the journal Tokovi istorije in 2/2020 and 3/2020 issues. This paper analyzes the polemics in light of the declaration called “Defend History”, published in 2020 by a group of historians from the post-Yugoslav area, including Dubravka Stojanović and Husnija Kamberović. The paper demonstrates the pamphleteerist character of the declaration and numerous abuses of history, as well as its ideological and political background.

As the Cold War simmered between the United States and the Soviet Union, a concurrent conflict festered among American historians. In what the New York Times has called "the American intelligentsia's ongoing cold war," over the last seven decades two supposedly contradictory academic approaches - revisionism and traditionalism - have been utilized to explain the rise, the nature, and the fall of Communism in the US and abroad. Proponents of these contrasting approaches have simultaneously engaged in often heated and personal debates, and it is the purpose of this piece to explore these debates and to look at attempts to productively resolve them. Rather than argue for the primacy of one particular form of history, this author concludes that the diversity of practices present in the field of American Communist Studies represents a methodological strength and not a weakness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Does a penny per month constitute a Basic Income? Were that penny to be paid individually, universally, and unconditionally, the answer would be 'yes', following the definition of Basic Income given by some of its leading advocates, be it organisations like the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) or prominent scholars such as Philippe Van Parijs. Some might be puzzled as to how this could be 'a capitalist road to communism', or give us 'freedom as the power to say no', both of which have been advocated by prominent researchers. The purpose of this paper is not to argue for or against their definition, but rather to situate it historiographically, enabling fruitful discussion. The paper will show how there was a widely shared assumption in the 1970s and 80s, at the early stages of both academic articulations and public discussion, that Basic Income comes with some notion of a threshold or level to be taken as a minimum or as adequate. The paper goes on to outline three issues that arise once the concept of a threshold is dropped from the definition. Examined in addition are five justifications for doing so. Much like any other idea, the concept of Basic Income is a social construct. By situating it here within a historical perspective, we wish to facilitate academic discussion regarding both the achievements and erasures that have occurred as a consequence of the concept's academic refinement—refinement that is in itself majorly indebted to BIEN and Van Parijs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We comment on a recent article by Lopes (2021) , whose argument regarding the writing of the history of the socialist calculation debate is unfortunately burdened by a misconception of both the substance and nature of the argument that ignited the debate. Bringing additional sources from this time to scholars' attention, we show that there is much more to the Austrian interpretation than standard interpretations of the debate admit. In fact, our findings indicate that Lange's famous response to Mises's challenge constitutes a rebuttal of a straw man. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The historiography on the François Duvalier regime in Haiti (1957–1971) tends to focus on Duvalier's wanton use of violence and generally overlooks questions of governance, stressing or inferring that Duvalier was a solitary despot. This article is resolutely revisionist and argues that Duvalier (1) did not govern alone; (2) relied primarily on an inner-circle for governance; (3) and that personal identity and intimacy, not ideology, determined the composition of this inner-circle. Paradoxically, membership in the inner-circle offered no guarantee for safety, as relations to Duvalier could shift from intimacy to hostility with staggering speed. This article's scope and methods are historiographic while using several anthropological notions on interpersonal relationships. It thus examined the bonds that shaped the composition of Duvalier's inner-circle in the course of four decades, from 1931 to 1971. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Herein I analyze how the French media understand and analyze the comfort women issue. To this end, I review related articles from four major French dailies and three French weekly magazines published between 1990 and 2019. The French press, whether on the right or left, recognize that the Korean comfort women victims, and the civil movements supporting those victims, have contributed to strengthening women's human rights at the global level. They argue that Japan, where historical revisionism prevails, has not faced the truth on this issue. The French leftist press further criticizes the United States for failing to condemn properly Japan's war crimes at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal under the pretext of the Cold War. One French journalist predicted that the future of a democratic and pacifist Japan depended on the sincere resolution of the comfort women issue. The public testimony of comfort women in the early 1990s may be likened to the tiny flapping of a butterfly's wings. The nearly thirty years since this testimony has seen a great butterfly effect, including criticism of the politicization of history in order to conceal or beautify past mistakes, the reinforcement of human rights, and the prospect of advancing democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, U.S. history textbooks announce a civic function when aimed at U.S. readers: they exist to read America into the future, to imply a futurity for the American “experiment.” But present-day political breakdown has presented deep challenges for the familiar national narrative. Jill Lepore’s recent synthesis—These Truths: A History of the United States (2018)—is the most prominent such text to emerge in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. It represents the pinnacle of liberal nationalist historiography and will likely take its place on college syllabi inside and outside the United States. It is also the most substantial attempt in recent years to revive the national history as a serious intellectual genre. This essay takes the form of a narratological interpretation of These Truths. The book is an occasion to consider what national history is and what it is for.

This study illuminates the process of writing history in Renaissance Sicily. While Italian historians have offered revisionist histories of Sicily in the Medieval period, the same cannot be said for the Sicilian Renaissance. The existing gap in our understanding of Renaissance historiography with regard to Sicily is the result of a much more expansive tradition that can be traced from Dante and Petrarch to later Italian national histories such as those of Francesco DeSanctis and Benedetto Croce, not to mention Jacob Burckhardt. Anglophone historiography of the Renaissance also reflects this trend of overlooking Sicilian historians of this period. We are left with an incomplete understanding of Sicilian history and culture. I offer a different picture of culture in Sicily during this period by examining how humanists of the time wrote Sicilian history and, as a result, constructed Sicilianità, a term I have chosen to discuss the construction of a unique Sicilian national identity. The work of the Dominican friar Tommaso Fazello (1498--1570) is particularly helpful in teasing out the broader pattern in Sicilian intellectual thought of a selective use of history, philosophy, and literature in order to construct Sicilianità. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to offer both an overview of the key issues and controversial policy decisions that defined history education in Korea for the past 10 years and a critical analysis of the actions taken by, and claims exchanged between, the advocates of New Right thinking and their opponents during this period. In doing so, it will point out the following three things. First, there has been a great deal of partisan political interference, more on the part of the right than of the left. Second, there was a strong presence of a nationalist element in the collective efforts made by the left to counter the conservative government's attempts to take firm control of what and how history is taught in schools. Third, both the right and the left played fast and loose with the idea of diversity in order to consolidate their academic and political positions. This was, it will be argued, as much a manifestation of fragmented reflections on relevant epistemological issues as the result of political expediency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While many commentators have highlighted the limitations of Irish revisionist historiography, this article offers the first comprehensive and explicitly anti-imperialist critique, locating revisionism within a wider liberal attack on revolution and popular agency. An analysis of Irish revisionism across three key areas follows. The argument first challenges revisionist claims to write value-free history, before charting its evolution in the specific social and political context of Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s, finding in the new turn an idiosyncratic Irish manifestation of a wider liberal defence of power. Finally, the article challenges revisionism on its own empirical terrain, working methodically through the revisionist canon to illustrate persistent and deeply problematic bias. It concludes that revisionism represents an ideological project, which provided an elite counter narrative of Irish history. This produced an overtly ideological reading of Irish history, founded on a refusal to acknowledge the colonial nature of the island's past – a hegemonic position with potentially adverse consequences for the island's future as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including the scholarly practice of historical revisionism, exploring how it challenges accepted narratives, exposes misconceptions, and offers fresh perspectives.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of 1917 many works have been republished, but new research is rare. The once fierce quarrel between totalitarianists and revisionists has dispersed and was replaced by a new consensual, all integrating narrative, including events, politicians, social structures and culture. Nobody questions any more that the "Great October" was a coup and not a revolution. A new trend in historiography is focusing on details, contingent events and contradictions, thus denying long believed causalities. So the social, political and economic situation is explained as background, but it was the war which caused the revolution. Convincing is Merridales history of space "Lenin's Train" and overwhelming to read is Slezkines apocalyptic saga of "The House of Government". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Günter Grass's Mein Jahrhundert represents the 20th century as a series of hundred anecdotes, narrated from the perspective of in many cases unknown or (seemingly) unidentified witnesses. As such, it is often read as an example of fictional history writing within Grass's encompassing framework of rediscovering the lives of those who underwent history rather than make it. The »sequential communal narration« (Lanser) adopted in this book was, however, criticized harshly by many readers as a patronizing form of postmodern – narrative – historiography. This article aims to show that the oral configuration of the narrative and the consistent use of a silent editor role, rhetorically directing the narrative and systematically linking the narrative with verifiable historical events and persons, does not reinforce the fictionality of writing history, but on the contrary underpins the double attempt to display not only the bias of historical witnessing, but also the historicity (and selectivity) of recording history. Grass's bringing in the silent editor hence must be seen as an (hyperrealistic) attempt to stem the tide of negationism, revisionism and the manipulation of history telling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I will analyse the links between the revisionist historiography of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 and the revisionist literature on the Mexican murals produced in the period immediately afterwards, as well as the theoretical arguments that underpin both, before making a call for a "post-revisionist" reading of the art. I will then finish by making a post-revisionist iconographical analysis of Diego Rivera's History of Mexico mural produced between 1929-35 as a counterpoint to revisionist ones that instead read it as government propaganda pure and simple. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent historical research exposed the myth of self-restraint as the distinctive feature of British counterinsurgency during decolonisation. This article shows that the revisionist historiography of British counterinsurgency has important, but unnoticed, implications for political scientists. Specifically, historical scholarship challenges the predictions and causal mechanisms of the main social scientific theses of civilian victimisation in counterinsurgency. Using revisionist historians' works as a source of data, I test those theses against Britain's decolonisation conflicts. I find that they do not pass the test convincingly. I conclude that political scientists should be more willing to explore the theoretical implications of new historical evidence on counterinsurgency campaigns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the citations from the ethnographic study "Der Preuſche Littauer" (1744; later cited as PL) by the Prussian priest Theodor Lepner which appear in the work of Simonas Daukantas (1793-1864) "BUDĄ Senowęs-Lëtuwiû Kalnienû ir "ámajtiû ĩszraszę [...] Jokyb's Łaukys" (later cited as "Būdas"). The object of this article is the 31 references to PL in S. Daukantas's "Būdas". Looking at the previous scholarly research on "Būdas" and its sources along with the subsequent questions they pose, this article formulates a goal to research the methods with which PL source citations were presented in Būdas. This goal was completed by setting and meeting the following tasks: 1) to determine the importance of PL as a source for S. Daukantas's research into the history of Lithuanian culture; 2) to exhibit S. Daukantas's use of citations instead of research into firsthand sources and 3) to discuss the reliability and fidelity with which these citations and references are presented. In order to analyze the text, this article employs the following methods: comparative analysis; textology; intertextuality. By examining these citations and references, it was discovered that Daukantas encountered this text indirectly sometime between 1818 and 1825 when he was writing his first history "Darbay senuju Lituwiu yr Zemaycziu" (around 1822-1825). This article determines that Daukantas found these quotations from Lepner's book in Martin L. Rhesa's addenddum ("Anmerkungen") of "Das Jahr in vier Geſängen" (1818). Daukantas used this addenddum to recite Lepner in his second historical work "Istorija Žemaitiška" (1831-1834). Later he found the fragments of Lepner's "Der Preuſche Littauer" in one of his most important sources - Johannes Voigt's "Geschichte Preußens" (Bd. 1, 1827). Daukantas had used this book by Voigt to recite an older source several times before. This article demonstrates that Daukantas used Voigt's book to recite the fragments of Matthäus Prätorius's (c.1635-c.1704) „Deliciae Prussicae, oder Preussische Schaubühne" manuscript. It somewhat changes the previous opinion about Daukantas's comprehensive historiographical knowledge, diminishing his image as a researcher familiar with many of the old or primary sources. This article concludes that Daukantas read "Der Preuſche Littauer" around 1836 or 1837 when he was already residing in Saint Petersburg. The quotes from "Der Preuſche Littauer" contained in Daukantas's Būdas are grouped according to the nature of their textual integration. "Būdas" contains 31 quotes and references from "Der Preuſche Littauer". None of the citations from "Der Preuſche Littauer" that Daukantas had used were distinguished with quotation marks or a different font, and they could only be recognized from their content. Quite often, Daukantas quotes "Der Preuſche Littauer" in several sentences without marking the beginning of the quotation and giving the indication only at the end of the sentence using small letters with brackets, eg.: a), b), c), e), d). Daukantas quite accurately reproduces the text of "Der Preuſche Littauer" and gives the exact reference only 17 times out of 31. 8 times his references are incorrect: both in terms of the content and the page numbers. 6 references contain accurate content cited from "Der Preuſche Littauer" but give erroneous page and section numbers. Daukantas was the first of 19th century Lithuanian writers who had his unique writing style and historical perspective. This original prism determined the use of indirect citations of "Der Preuſche Littauer". I determined that because no firsthand Lithuanian historical sources existed Daukantas was forced to use foreign sources such as PL which marginalized Lithuanians as members of an ethnic minority and strange satyre-worthy objects thus requiring for him to engage in historical revisionism by factual reconstruction and reinterpretation from a Lithuanian perspective. He used these secondhand sources to deobjectify Lithuanians and make them into subjects and agents of their own history and destiny by describing their past and character through their eyes. This historical revisionism determined the way Daukantas cited and referenced T. Lepner's text as a source. Daukantas avoided marking citations in quotation marks since they would then have to be translated as close to the original as possible which would have impeded with his historical vision. To make his narration and perspective congruous with his values and style he edited not only the language of the citations from "Der Preuſche Littauer" but also their content. Most of the information obtained from "Der Preuſche Littauer" was paraphrased, processed, and rewritten in such a way as to incorporate the new text into Daukantas's own style and ideas. However, it may also be that Daukantas sometimes misquoted the text because he did not understand how the item described in German could look and how he should describe it in Lithuanian. Daukantas often sacrificed the fidelity to the text of "Der Preuſche Littauer" in favour of emotional and expressive speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the historiography of the American revolution in articles published in the journal "William and Mary Quarterly." Topics include the influence of historian Charles McLean Andrews, revisionist aspects of the historiography of the American Revolution, and the collection of articles from the journal in the book "In Search of Early America." The book "The Radicalism of the American Revolution," by Gordon S. Wood, is noted.

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Using two case studies under the Christian-conservative Orbán government, this essay explores how ‘future memories’ are being constructed and sustained by revisionist history writing about the history of communism, especially in instrumentalist memories using pedagogical instruments: the secondary literature curriculum and the Museum of Trianon. It argues that canonization revised by counter canonization is necessarily opening space for revisionism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

“Historical revisionism” is currently seen, in the River Plate region, as an intellectual movement which emerged in the thirties to suggest an alternative interpretation of what is called the “academic” or “official” version of the past. This movement establishes strong connections between historical narratives and political positions, and an intense contestation to the political order in power, using non-liberal political traditions. However, wider spatial and temporal perspectives enable to shed light on the revisionist experiences prior to the 1930s. In the first decades of 20th century, in Argentina (especially in local realms), Paraguay and Uruguay some historiographical initiatives -connected by transnational and continental networks- developed. These attempts proposed a past interpretation, away from what they considered to be the hegemonic perspective, crafted in –and for- Buenos Aires, old capital of the River Plate Viceroyalty. Among the most characteristics issues of this counter-history, its origin in geographically “peripheral” places could be mentioned ; the marginal attention that academic historiography have paid to Revisionist main topics (Paraguay War, local caudillos) ; its close link with the so called “national question” at a time when identity discourses were strongly demanded ; and the multiple ideological positions of the revisionist authors, although many of them tended to display or assume rightist ideas.

This article discusses the historiographical studies regarding the independence movements in Latin America during the early 19th century. The author comments on the historical analysis of militias and other armed forces involved in these movements and describes the phenomenon of historical revisionism. The relationship between historiography and semantics is also considered.

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More than fifty years after his tragic death, John F. Kennedy continues to fascinate and incite the interest of a large public. The American Camelot endures, despite numerous and various revisionist historiography evaluations of JFK's presidency and personal life. Conspiracy thinking underlies both the idealistic and the unflattering views of the Kennedy image and has proved to be a considerable factor in the proliferation of this cultural construct. However, very little has been written on the psychological, social and cultural mechanism which keeps the JFK flame burning. Don DeLillo is the only American novelist who transcends the mere sensationalist side of the Kennedy assassination toward a personal, yet historically informed, fictional analysis of November 22nd 1963 and its aftermath, in his 1988 novel Libra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The foundations of human rights are a contested subject, including who influenced them and what they are. The historiography may be divided into two sides: the continuous history group and the recent origins group. The former consists of scholars who find that human rights began in much earlier time periods and evolved into today's human rights regime. However, the latest trend is to argue against a progressive history. Samuel Moyn most popularly represents it in his books: The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History and Human Rights and the Uses of History. He claims that today's human rights ideology arrived on the world stage de novo in 1977 with President Jimmy Carter's inaugural address. This article demonstrates four weaknesses in Moyn's findings calling into question the revisionist history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay reconsiders the category of ' Holocaust denial' as the marked indicator of ethical transgression in Holocaust historiography within American civil religion. It maintains that the present category excludes and thereby enables other violations of responsible Holocaust historiography. To demonstrate the nature and gravity of such violations, the essay engages the widespread claim that Hajj Muhammad Amin al- Husayni, the former mufti of Jerusalem, was an instigator, promoter, or 'driving spirit' of the Nazi genocide against Jews, and the associated suggestions of wider Arab and Muslim complicity. The essay uncovers the history of the Husayni narrative in question, the dramatic circumstances in which it emerged, its role in the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, and its rediscovery and misuse within American popular and political circles over the past two decades. Such misuse, it concludes, corrodes Holocaust recognition within American civil religion and demonstrates the need for a revision of the socially accepted ethical boundary for responsible Holocaust historiography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The impact of Reformasi on Indonesia has extended beyond the realms of politics and economics, also leading to changing understandings of history. For example, the institutional and popular approaches to the Darul Islam movement (1947-65) and its leader Kartosuwiryo have shifted in Indonesian publications released between the 1940s and the 2010s. These approaches place varying degrees of emphasis on their rebellious or Islamic character. A trajectory from condemnation to glorification illustrates that, whilst formal political transitions are useful to gauge historiographical shifts, in the case at hand there is more continuity than change across regimes, and much nuanced variation within each politically defined era. Revisionism has also appeared in Indonesian military historiography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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