Harry Elmer Barnes

Harry Elmer Barnes (June 15, 1889 – August 25, 1968) was a prominent American historian in the 20th century. A "progressive who had some classical liberal impulses," he was associated for virtually his entire career with Columbia University. Barnes at one time was held in high academic esteem as a revisionist historian but later lost credibility with historians by entering into the practice of Holocaust denial.

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