“actually WORDS have WELL-KNOWN/generally ACCEPTED meanings in political science/philosophy/history/academia in general.
REVISIONIST/REVISIONISM is one of those “terms of art”, which are “shorthand” for identifying a “school of thought” to which a particular scholar belongs.
REVISIONIST in the current academic context means LEFTIST/radical/socialist/statist (some academics would say: COMMUNIST!), as the REVISIONIST heresy of scholarship arose out of the MOST extreme, LEFTIST, “idiot fringe” of northeastern & “left coast” academia.
once more, Tom is considered by his peers to be a TRADITIONAL historian.
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Better tell this conservative blogger that DiLorenzo is not a conservative historical revisionist in the noble tradition of all who challenge the mainstream way of thinking.
http://eidelblog.blogspot.com/2005/05/historical-revisionism.html
If DiLorenzo is “traditional”, then he agrees with all those historians who continually vote Lincoln the greatest President in American history. That’s what’s traditional.
http://www.americanpresidents.org/survey/historians/16.asp
I didn't see in the survey where it was limited to "Historians". And if so, what is the criteria for a "historian" to vote in this so called survey?
Oops -- My bad -- I see c-span selected some 90 historians for the survey -- I suppose we'll have to rely on c-span's historian selection process !!
lincoln is admired by the same sort of modern scholar, who believes wee willie klintoon to be a GREAT president.
face it, "jamese777", you've been "sold a bill of goods". purveyors of the "lincoln myth" are NOT called members of the "lincoln worshiping cult" for nothing.
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lincoln is admired by the same sort of modern scholar, who believes wee willie klintoon to be a GREAT president.
face it, "jamese777", you've been "sold a bill of goods". purveyors of the "lincoln myth" are NOT called members of the "lincoln worshiping cult" for nothing.
free dixie,sw