revisionist

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The exhibition also introduces some valuable scholarship, but its art seems to have been chosen to serve not Klee but its revisionist thesis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 8, 2026

“The untruths, mischaracterizations, and revisionist history in your email paint a completely misleading narrative,” Shotwell told the Journal in a statement in 2024.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

“It’s a terrible idea to move swiftly and not have the really complicated and challenging process that is required to actually work towards more than a superficial pretense of revisionist history,” Gudis said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

The memorials warned that fake content was also being created "specifically to dilute historical facts, shift victim and perpetrator roles, or spread revisionist narratives".

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

This was revisionist history, of course; the representations by the three scientists during their White House meeting the previous June were what had prompted Eisenhower to question publicly the wisdom of a test ban.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik