Court Historians, Court Intellectuals In his long career as a revisionist historian, which only ended with his death in 1968, Harry Elmer Barnes found himself constantly opposed to what he called Court Historians. He coined this term to describe those historians who could always be counted on to put the deeds of reigning politicians in the best possible light, especially in foreign affairs. As a skeptic on World Wars One and Two, as well as the Cold War, Barnes had his work cut out for him. For Barnes, the Cold War came down to the perfection of the system described … Continue reading Social Science, Camelot, and Other Evils of the American Half Century