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. Cicero said, The first law for the historian is that he should never utter an untruth. The first, and most important rule, is to report history factually, objectively, without bias or propagandistic intent. 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 U.S. should not only participate in, but actively instigate. That is our mission here at The Barnes Review, to warn against commission of the mistakes of the past, as it was for our namesake, Henry Elmer Barnes, as well as a raft of others whose names are swept under the rug of plutocratic history. Barnes was the ground breaker. His revisionist work after WWI, Genesis of the World War, published in 1926, was the first to free itself from Allied wartime propaganda, being based on the original sour ces and monographic literature of the key players of the period. The famous English historian George Peabody Gooch said of this book, No other American scholar has done so much to familiarize his countrymen with the new evidence, and to compel them to revise their wartime judgments in the light of the new material.