Historians used the term first and in the context of their profession it does not have the connotation of working backwards from ideology and agenda. A primary

Historians used the term first and in the context of their profession it does not have the connotation of working backwards from ideology and agenda. A primary project in the last 40 years of history research has been explicitly called "revisionist history" in the sense that professionals are re-examining well-trodden territory but from new and broader perspectives.