Harry Elmer Barnes (June 15, 1889 – August 25, 1968) was a prominent American historian in the 20th century. A "progressive who had some classical liberal impulses," he was associated for virtually his entire career with Columbia University. Barnes at one time was held in high academic esteem as a revisionist historian but later lost credibility with historians by entering into the practice of Holocaust denial.
In 1925 he edited A Manual of Unive...
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Harry Elmer Barnes (June 15, 1889 – August 25, 1968) was a prominent American historian in the 20th century. A "progressive who had some classical liberal impulses," he was associated for virtually his entire career with Columbia University. Barnes at one time was held in high academic esteem as a revisionist historian but later lost credibility with historians by entering into the practice of Holocaust denial.
In 1925 he edited A Manual of Universal History, a revision of William H. Tillinghast's A Handbook of Universal History. This work's organizational structure was the outline used in William L. Langer's An Encyclopedia of World History.
During World War I, Barnes had been a strong supporter of the war effort with the anti-German propaganda he had written being rejected by the National Board for Historical Service describing Barnes's writing as "too violent to be acceptable". After the war, Barnes views towards Germany underwent a volte-face with Barnes becoming as Germanophile...
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