The collective noun for a group of historians is an “argumentation,” and for good reason. At the very dawn of historical inquiry in the West, historians were already wrestling over the past, attacking each other, debating the purposes and uses of historical knowledge, choosing different subjects to pursue, and arguing about how to pursue them.
All History Is Revisionist History
Ever since Thucydides dismissed Herodotus, historians have differed about the past
James M. Banner Jr.