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Ep. 2222 Historical Revisionism, and Why We Need It

The Tom Woods Show

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What Is Revisionism?

Revisionism is a morally neutral term. It simply involves re-examining historical events to see if there have been accurately conveyed. Tom Di Lorenzo just gave you examples of people who were bad revisionists. They looked at a historical narrative and they wanted to change it in order to advance their current day political ambitions. And I imagine Thomas Jefferson, who also has a memorial on the other end of the ball in DC, would be appalled by this by this explanation of the meaning of the Lincoln Memorial.

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