Likewise, this pattern is found in the official historiography of Argentina which has no records of the violent conquest of the indigenous peoples.

The Working Group encourages Governments and international development and financial institutions to establish programmes to support specialists and students of African descent to undertake multidisciplinary research, inter alia, on places of memory of the slave trade and historiography.

Moreover, Britain's High Court has ruled against British author David Irving in his suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher, thus repudiating attempts to distort the historiography of the Holocaust.

He explained that any attempt to analyse the relationship between expression and religion must take into consideration historiography, implying an understanding of “who writes history and for whom”, and that there should be no monopoly of sources in that regard.

Ever since the European powers set sail at the end of thefifteenth century to conquer the world, historiography andinternational politics have become accustomed to a certain pattern:military, economic, and technological power is translated into theexercise of influence over other countries, conquest, and evenglobal dominance and empire.

BERLIN – Germans used to joke that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s penchant for communicating via fleeting text messageseffectively marked the end of traditional historiography. Well, atleast American spy agencies seem to have kept full track of thebehind-the-scenes communications – in Berlin and beyond.

He claims that he is being held under national security allegations based solely on his belief that there are numerous aspects of the established historiography on the fate of the Jews during World War II that require further research and revision, and on his work in sharing that information with others. He argues that this is the type of activity that articles 18 and 19 are designed to protect, and that the national security charges against him are politically motivated and arbitrary, in violation of these articles.