The First Law Clio, the ancient Roman muse of history, was first and foremost a teacher. The lessons of history, the Romans knew, were the guideposts for the future. Since Herodotus, all historians who remain true to the traditions of historiography abide by rigid rules. The second is to learn from what has gone before and correctly apply those lessons to current events.
Responsible historians do just that.
And that is why we have been sounding the alarm over the war brewing in the Balkans, which the plutocratic elite has decided the US should not only participate in, but actively instigate. Barnes was the ground breaker. His revisionist work after W.W.I, Genesis of the World War, published in 1926, was the first to free itself from Allied wartime propaganda, being based on the original sources and monographic literature of the key players of the period. After W.W.II, his Struggle Against the Historical Blackout started the revisionist struggle anew. Professor Charles Austin Beard completes this partial listing of distinguished writers.