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Historical revisionism in America has been taking place in America since the early 1900s.  One well known revisionist is [[Charles Beard]], who was at the time considered to be "the most influential historian in America"<ref>{{cite book|last1=Riggenbach|first1=Jeff|title=Why American History is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism|date=2009|publisher=[[Ludwig von Mises Institute]]|location=Auburn, Alabama|isbn=1479295043|pages=79}}</ref>  Other revisionist historians include William Appleman Williams and Frederick Jackson Turner.  However, the first American revisionist in the modern sense is generally considered to be Carl Becker<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brundage|first1=Anthony|title=The Great Tradition: Constitutional History and National Identity in Britain and the United States, 1870-1960|date=2007|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Stanford, California|isbn=0804756864|pages=141}}</ref>, who wrote ''History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776'' (1909).  Another revisionist, Charles McLean Andrews, wrote a four-part book series titled ''The Colonial Period of American History'', in which he wrote the following:
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Historical revisionism in America has been taking place in America since the early 1900s.  One well known revisionist is [[Charles Beard]], who was at the time considered to be "the most influential historian in America"<ref>{{cite book|last1=Riggenbach|first1=Jeff|title=Why American History is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism|date=2009|publisher=[[Ludwig von Mises Institute]]|location=Auburn, Alabama|isbn=1479295043|pages=79}}</ref>  Other revisionist historians include William Appleman Williams and Frederick Jackson Turner.  However, the first American revisionist in the modern sense is generally considered to be Carl Becker<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brundage|first1=Anthony|title=The Great Tradition: Constitutional History and National Identity in Britain and the United States, 1870-1960|date=2007|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Stanford, California|isbn=0804756864|pages=141}}</ref>, who wrote ''History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776'' (1909).  Another revisionist, Charles McLean Andrews, wrote a book in 1912 titled ''The Colonial Period'', in which he wrote the following:
 
<blockquote>The phrase "natural rights of Englishmen" is vague and meaningless in the history of constitutional development and political philosophy, and deserves to stand with that other equally abused phrase, much on the lips of the colonists at this time, "taxation without representation."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Andrews|first1=Charles M.|title=The Colonial Period of American History|date=1912|publisher=Henry Holt and Company|location=New York|pages=251}}</ref></blockquote>
 
<blockquote>The phrase "natural rights of Englishmen" is vague and meaningless in the history of constitutional development and political philosophy, and deserves to stand with that other equally abused phrase, much on the lips of the colonists at this time, "taxation without representation."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Andrews|first1=Charles M.|title=The Colonial Period of American History|date=1912|publisher=Henry Holt and Company|location=New York|pages=251}}</ref></blockquote>
  
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