Question

Which describes the revisionist or conflict perspective in historiography?

A. History should be viewed from perspectives that are not commonly held.
B. History is impossible to record accurately without primary source documentation. C. History is and should be recorded as it happens, as factual and fixed information. D. History is recorded most accurately according to the experts of the time period in question.
E. History should be recorded from either a top down or bottom up perspective.

Answer 1

Revisionists or conflict perspective historians believe history should be told from the side of the "little guy". The goal of revisionist history is to present a side of history that is often forgotten or overlooked in particular in historical textbooks. History under revisionist ideology will be written from the perspective of the poor, minority races and ethnicities, or women for example. Howard Zinn's, A People's History of the United States is a famous example of this type of writing.