Blasting the Blackout:
A Revisionist Collection

In May of 1963, Harry Elmer Barnes wrote one of his most enduring essays, "Blasting the Historical Blackout."  Barnes essay was a reaction to the recent publication of The Origins of the Second World War by A.J.P. Taylor a trail-blazing revisionist work.  In his essay Barnes described what he meant by the "Historical Blackout."  He called the Historical Blackout, "the effort which has been made since the outbreak of the second World War to suppress the truth relative to the responsibility for this great conflict and the manner in which the United States entered the war.  This has involved ignoring or suppressing the facts which run counter to wartime propaganda when writing books on these subjects, and suppressing, ignoring, or seeking to discredit those books when have taken account of such facts."  Partly to honor the memory and the valiant work that Barnes performed to bring history into accord with the facts, we name this collection after his seminal phrase.

World War One

• The Bryce Report, by Viscount James Bryce

World War Two

• How Britain Pioneered City Bombing, by Nicholas Kollerstrom, PhD
  
  
• Pearl Harbor After a Quarter of a Century, by Harry Elmer Barnes
  
  
• The Pro-Red Orchestra Starts Tuning Up In the U.S.A., 1941, by James J. Martin
  
  
• Revisionism and the Promotion of Peace, by Harry Elmer Barnes
  
  
• The Tradition of Historical Revisionism, by Tom Marcellus