it’s basically just when you challenge previous mainstream history, i.e. history as determined by all of the entrenched institutional gatekeeping mechanisms of academia for whatever era. that’s a good thing for people who think that e.g. cold war historiography is distorted
a lot of the time you’ll hear wrt ancient or medieval history revisionist scholars starting to consider things more from the perspective of average working people of the time instead of taking at face value the received wisdom (i.e. spin) from the wealthy who wrote the old histories. or a lot of the time liberal society moves forward or information comes to light etc and the universities can be a site for revisionism of their own old histories. the 1619 project is a good example of mainstream historical revisionism.
it’s basically just when you challenge previous mainstream history, i.e. history as determined by all of the entrenched institutional gatekeeping mechanisms of academia for whatever era. that’s a good thing for people who think that e.g. cold war historiography is distorted
a lot of the time you’ll hear wrt ancient or medieval history revisionist scholars starting to consider things more from the perspective of average working people of the time instead of taking at face value the received wisdom (i.e. spin) from the wealthy who wrote the old histories. or a lot of the time liberal society moves forward or information comes to light etc and the universities can be a site for revisionism of their own old histories. the 1619 project is a good example of mainstream historical revisionism.