Background
He was born in Auburn, New York, United States, in 1889.
(A collection of revisionist essays edited by Harry Elmer ...)
A collection of revisionist essays edited by Harry Elmer Barnes dealing with the duplicity of American foreign policy leading up to the Second World War. Shows how the Roosevelt Administration deliberately manipulated events in Europe and Asia to bring the Us into the war; how Roosevelt was aware of the date, time and place of the Pearl Harbor attack before it happened (and deliberately let it go ahead); and much more. The authors show the deception perpetrated against the American people, who were 80 percent opposed to entering the war. 1. Revisionism and the Historical Blackout. 2. The United States and the Road to War in Europe. 3. Roosevelt Is Frustrated in Europe. 4: How American Policy toward Japan Contributed to War in the Pacific. 5: Japanese-American Relations, 1921-1941; The Pacific Back Road to War. 6. The Actual Road to Pearl Harbor. 7: The Pearl Harbor Investigations. 8: The Bankruptcy of a Policy. 9: American Foreign Policy in the Light of National Interest at the Mid-Century.
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( WWI: It was the first of the devastating modern wars, i...)
WWI: It was the first of the devastating modern wars, involving nations from across the globe and resulting in millions of casualties-both civilians and soldiers. "The Germans started the war"-that is what we have been told by those who wrote the history of World War I. But how much blame should Germany really bear? And what about Austria-Hungary, England, Russia, Belgium, Italy and France? What was the complex set of circumstances that blew out of control after the assassination of an archduke of Austria-Hungary? What other options were left to the nations involved? How did England and Germany get involved in these matters? And why were Russia and France so eager for a fight? Follow along as Revisionist historian Harry Elmer Barnes walks us through the complex history of the time-from the perspective of each of the participant nations-and makes it easy to determine who started WWI. This book contains additional information on: the Serbian plot; France & Russia war preparations; Austria's plans to act against Serbia; Russia's moves toward war; France encourages Russian mobilization; Germany endeavors to preserve peace; England's refusal to restrain France & Russia; the war in Italy & Belgium; Dr. Barnes' conclusion; how the United States became involved.
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He was born in Auburn, New York, United States, in 1889.
He received his a. b. degree summa cum laude in 1913 and his a. m. degree in 1914, both from Syracuse University, and his ph. d. in 1918 from Columbia.
In the academic year 1916/1917 he studied at Harvard on a fellowship.
He had studied under outstanding scholars in history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, including, at Columbia, the founders of the New History, James H. Robinson, James T. Shotwell, and William R. Shepherd, the political scientist William A. Dunning, and the anthropologist Alexander Goldenweiser, and at Harvard, the historian Edwin F. Gay, the physiologist Lawrence J. Henderson, and the anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton.
Barnes lectured widely between 1918 and 1941 on current events and recent history.
He was special commentator on social issues for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, 1929–1940, and during that time also lectured widely on penology, criminology, education, and other social issues and wrote numerous articles and book reviews and several of his most important works.
Barnes became, especially known through his book The New History and the Social Studies (1925).
His other contribution to historiography, first published in the Encyclopedia Americana, was revised and expanded into his History of Historical Writing (1937).
Clearly written and instructively organized, his works showed keen discrimination in the selection of matter presented.
They thus supplied for a large body of students and instructors essential orientation material, otherwise either inaccessible or unduly time-consuming.
In the area of intellectual and institutional history also belongs The Twilight of Christianity (1929), a controversial book that aroused wide interest, was highly esteemed by intellectuals and not a few liberal Protestant clergymen, but was roundly denounced by religious conservatives.
It found Christian beliefs and theology to be based largely on myths and quite irreconcilable with higher criticism of the Biblical records, Near East history, and advancing knowledge of man and his universe, especially the universe of universes of modern astronomy. His lifelong interest in penology and criminology began with a history of penal institutions in New Jersey (1918), which was followed by a similar history of Pennsylvania penology (1927).
No doubt much of his writing represents a combination of the publicist–reformer with the conscientious scholar, but of his unflinching courage and his devotion to historic truth there cannot be the slightest doubt.
( WWI: It was the first of the devastating modern wars, i...)
(A collection of revisionist essays edited by Harry Elmer ...)
After the war, Barnes' views reversed: he became as much of a Germanophile as he previously had been Germanophobic. Barnes took the view that the United States had fought on the wrong side in World War I.
A strong non-interventionist, Barnes was very publicly opposed to the United States fighting in the Korean War.
He thought, noting also that social problems can be well understood only in the light of their historical background, he advocated the integration and cross-fertilization of history and the social sciences.
Quotations: Barnes wrote: What is deemed important today is not whether Hitler started war in 1939 or whether Roosevelt was responsible for Pearl Harbour, but the number of prisoners were allegedly done to death in the concentration camps operated by Germany during the war. ..