Editing Historical revisionism (section)

===American business and "robber barons"===
The role of American business and the alleged [[robber baron (industrialist)|"robber barons"]] began to be revised in the 1930s. Termed "business revisionism" by [[Gabriel Kolko]], historians such as [[Allan Nevins]], and then [[Alfred D. Chandler]] emphasized the positive contributions of individuals who were previously pictured as villains.<ref>Kolko, Gabriel. "The Premises of Business Revisionism" in ''The Business History Review'', Vol. 33, No. 3 (Autumn, 1959), p. 334</ref> Peter Novick writes, "The argument that whatever the moral delinquencies of the robber barons, these were far outweighed by their decisive contributions to American military [and industrial] prowess, was frequently invoked by Allan Nevins."<ref>{{cite book |last=Novick |first=Peter |title=That Noble Dream: The Objectivity Question and the American Historical profession |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780521357456 |url-access=registration |year=1988 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0521357456 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780521357456/page/343 343]}}</ref>