05/15/09 – Jeff Riggenbach – The Scott Horton Show

by | May 15, 2009 | Interviews

Jeff Riggenbach, author of Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism, discusses the role of Charles Beard and Harry Elmer Barnes in advancing revisionist U.S. history, court historians who fight to preserve a mythology of benevolent government actions, drastic changes in the meaning of politically descriptive terms like ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ and moving away from a war/presidential perspective of history to a focus on economic/social science issues.

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