As a result, Beard's reputation collapsed among liberal historians who previously had admired him.

It is traditional among liberal historians to dismiss such endeavors as "funny-money schemes."

These are the people whom liberal historians are now studying.

Many liberal historians disputed the assertion.

According to liberal historians, such as Richard Pipes, this support was then manipulated by key Bolsheviks in search of a totalitarian state.

Later liberal historians would embellish this portrayal even more.

So sharply have the battle lines been drawn between Soviet, liberal and libertarian historians that fruitful debate between them has been all but impossible.

Mr. Jeansonne complains that liberal historians of the period have not tried to understand the mothers' movement on its own terms.

By the 1970s liberal historians were responding with a defense of the New Deal based on numerous local and microscopic studies.

Years later Toreno, the liberal historian, acknowledged the 'correctness' of this policy.