On the reasons and goals of revising historical narratives, on Revisionism as a “movement,” covering topics such as its history and objectives, and on the techniques and politics of writing about history in general.
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ April 27, 2014
By Richard A. Widmann- April 25th marked the anniversary of the Spanish-American War. While barely a notice appeared in the American media, the Spanish-American War of 1898 was instrumental in transforming the United States into an empire. It also established a precedent for the subsequent conflicts of the 20th Century in that the media played…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ April 13, 2014
By Richard A. Widmann- This week, Russian lawmakers passed a bill that would make Holocaust revisionism illegal. The bill introduces criminal charges for “denying facts” established by the Nuremberg tribunal regarding the crimes of the Axis powers, as well as “disseminating false information about Soviet actions” during the war. Punishment for such violations would range…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ March 30, 2014
By History Behind Bars- The softbound edition of Inconvenient History Volume V is now available! Our fifth softbound annual contains 516 pages of cutting-edge revisionist scholarship revealing the inconvenient truth on several aspects of recent history. Inconvenient History Volume V contains all the content from our 4 issues from 2013. You will receive a softbound…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ March 16, 2014
By Richard A. Widmann- To say that 2013 was a great year for Inconvenient History (IH) would be putting it mildly. While accolades have been made about the quality of our materials, the proof is in the proverbial pudding (as they say.) Throughout the year, some 58,729 people visited the IH Website. This represents a…
By Jett Rucker ∙ October 1, 2013
Until very recently, a map clearly predating Columbus’s first voyage of discovery was widely considered evidence that Norsemen had “discovered” North America first. In fact, at the time it came to light (that is, onto the market), it constituted the best, if not the only evidence of this notion; discovery and dating of Norse settlements…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ October 1, 2012
The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Revised edition, Penguin Group, New York, 2010, 379 pp. This book is about the profound subjects of thinking, knowing, understanding, and then acting (or just as often, refraining from acting) on understanding. While it concentrates on how to think, know, and understand, it necessarily, and very valuably, strays…
By Kerry R. Bolton ∙ July 1, 2012
Whether the received wisdom on an historical event can be subjected to scholarly scrutiny depends upon the method by which the subject is utilized by entrenched interests. Hence, let the scholar or student who embarks on the questioning of certain sacred cows beware lest he be damned for heresy. This essay examines a polemical technique…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ September 20, 2013
By History Behind Bars- Inconvenient History is an on-line quarterly journal dedicated to the free investigation of historical matters of the 20th and 21st centuries. Providing our journal for free to readers via the Web helps us to expose myths and falsehoods of our recent history to the greatest number of people. For those who…
By Ernst Nolte ∙ January 2, 1999
Ernst Nolte “Was someone an ‘Auschwitz denier’ if, a decade ago, he disputed the officially sanctioned thesis that four million human beings were gassed in Auschwitz – that is, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp? Should Daniel Goldhagen today be considered an ‘Auschwitz denier’ because, in a passage right at the beginning of his book that reviewers…
By Murray N. Rothbard ∙ March 1, 1966
Revisionism as applied to World War II and its origins (as also for previous wars) has the general function of bringing historical truth to an American and a world public that had been drugged by wartime lies and propaganda. This, in itself, is a virtue. But some truths of history, of course, may be largely…
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