Revise and Resubmit

And the world looks just the same and history ain't changed
'Cause the banners they are flown in the next war
--The Who

I had always regarded 'revisionist history' to mean attempts to alter 'true' accounts of history to something more tainted and biased. A bad thing.

Articles such as this one indicate that I've gotten it completely backwards.

Historical revisionism reflects efforts to add important perspectives that, for accidental or intentional reasons, have been previously omitted from historical accounts.

As the author of the article notes, there can be quite a pushback from those who desire that historical accounts remain biased, narrow, and/or perhaps even false.

My humble forays into US history suggest that, in addition to the WWI and WWII periods the author mentions, other periods that could stand more revisionist attention include FDR and the Great Depression, the 'progressive period' of the late 1800s and early 1900s (which founded, among others things, institutions such as the Fed and the Sixteenth Amendmentment), Lincoln and the origins of the Civil War, and the country's climate surrounding the development and ratification of the Constitution.

Historical revisionism should be welcome to anyone who values critical thinking.