Editing Historical revisionism (section)

===Reconstruction in the United States===
Revisionist historians of the [[Reconstruction era of the United States]] rejected the dominant [[Dunning School]] that stated that Black Americans were used by [[carpetbaggers]], and instead stressed economic greed on the part of northern businessmen.<ref>Bernard Weisberger, "The Dark and Bloody Ground of Reconstruction Historiography", ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. 25, No. 4 (November 1959), pp. 427–447 [https://www.jstor.org/pss/2954450 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217110143/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2954450 |date=February 17, 2022 }}</ref> Indeed, in recent years a "[[Neoabolitionism (race relations)|neoabolitionist]]" revisionism has become standard; it uses the moral standards of racial equality of the 19th century abolitionists to criticize racial policies. "Foner's book represents the mature and settled Revisionist perspective", historian Michael Perman has concluded regarding [[Eric Foner]]'s ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877'' (1988).<ref>Michael Perman, "Review: Eric Foner's Reconstruction: A Finished Revolution", ''Reviews in American History'', Vol. 17, No. 1 (March 1989), pp. 73–78 [https://www.jstor.org/pss/2703129 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217110206/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2703129 |date=February 17, 2022 }}</ref>