El revisionismo histórico es el estudio y reinterpretación de la historia. Tiene un uso académico legítimo y otro peyorativo. Su uso académico se refiere a la reinterpretación de hechos históricos a la luz de nuevos datos, o nuevos análisis más precisos o menos sesgados de datos conocidos. El revisionismo presupone que entre los historiadores, o el público general, existe una forma generalmente aceptada de entender un acontecimiento o un proceso histórico y que hay razones para ponerla en duda. Esas razones pueden ser de distinto tipo: la puesta en valor de nuevos documentos, el cambio de paradigma historiográfico; o también el cambio de los valores desde los que se observa el pasado. En los casos de revisionismo no académico o pseudocientífico suele acusarse a quien lo practica de dedicarse al uso político de la historia y de no respetar la neutralidad y el espíritu crítico en la relación con las fuentes considerados básicos en el trabajo del historiador.

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In historiography, the term historical revisionism identifies the re-interpretation of the historical record. It usually means challenging the orthodox views held by professional scholars about a historical event, or introducing new evidence, or of restating the motivations and decisions of the participant people. The revision of the historical record reflects the new discoveries of fact, evidence, and interpretation, which produce a revised history. In dramatic cases, revisionism involves a reversal of older moral judgments about heroes and villains. At a basic level, historical revisionism is a common and not especially controversial process of developing and refining the writing of history. Much more controversial is the reversal of moral findings, which the heroes, good guys, or positive forces are depicted as villains, bad guys, or negative forces. This revisionism is quickly challenged by the supporters of the old view, often in heated terms. It becomes historical negationism, a form of historical revisionism that presents a re-interpretation of the moral meaning of the historical record. A famous example is the revisionism on the causes of World War I, in which the revisionists of the 1920s denied that Germany was the guilty party. The term "revisionism" is also used in highly negative terms by partisans who charge that the revisionists are deliberately distorting the true historical record.

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