Without a somewhat accurate, reliable account of our common history we can’t work towards a better future. Sometimes time will tell. Sometimes time will set the record straight, but time relies on us, so we better get going.
Valuable historic research can be found in some of the works of the historians mentioned below.
- Edward Chancellor. Financial historian, author of the 2022 book The Price of Time.
- Stanley Kutler. Known for getting the Nixon tapes released in court in 1996, in a FOIA case against the US National Archives.
- Stephen Kinzer. For his 2020 book Poisoner in Chief.
- Edwin Black. His books include IBM and the Holocaust.
- Howard Zinn. American history from the perspective of The People.
- A.J.P. Taylor. British historian who exposed the many opportunities Allied countries gave to Hitler.
- Russell Jacoby. My former professor, criticizes academia for losing free speech.
- Curt Gentry. For his work on FBI corruption.
- Athan Theoharis. For his work FBI corruption.
- David Garrow. Argues for non-partisanship, for interviewing real people as opposed to referencing other historians, revealed surprising facts on Barack Obama, some of which show Obama’s ‘memoir’ is a work of fiction.
- David Talbot. Wrote about US power structures and JFK’s murder. See his books.
- Daniele Ganser. Swiss historian whose books focus on geopolitics.
- Jennifer Burns. Stanford historian who is one of the few in academia who writes with a level of integrity about the history of libertarianism.
This list of historians is continuously updated