Over the past thirty years, however, revisionist historians have been busy undermining the foundations supporting this venerable idea.

Revisionist historians have written that she became depressed that it took her so long to recognise the infectious causes of the high death rate.

Revisionist historians use deception techniques to help achieve their political or ideological goals.

Because historians are credited as people who single-mindedly pursue truth, revisionist historians capitalize on the profession's credibility and present their pseudohistory as true scholarship.

But, revisionist historians have argued that it created more lawlessness than it eliminated.