An amicus brief in support of Washington D.C.'s handgun ban dealing with the historical issues in the case was filed by fifteen professional academic historians. One would expect such a brief to be historically accurate, address the Second Amendment in its proper Bill of Rights related context, and include the most relevant figures, statements, and actions for understanding any historical issues in the dispute. However, any such expectation is left largely unfulfilled in the historians' brief.
One would expect that, if one expected this particular group of agenda-driven manipulators to be more interested in truth than Marxist social engineering. We are told those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. When historians betray their trust and obscure and rewrite that past with present motives, it is a very special type of betrayal, an act of treason against all humanity.
David E. Young does a fine job deconstructing the deception, albeit he mostly treats it as error, omission and failure. Not being part of the "respectable" academic community, I'm under no restraints to conclude that no one, not even 15 professional academics, could be this obtuse. The only explanation is one of premeditated sleight of mind to promote their ideology, rather than solid scholarship to pursue the truth.
Incidentally, if you don't have Young's book, "The Origin of the Second Amendment," you're missing out on one of the finest, most comprehensive resources available. It is among the most highlighted and dog-eared tomes on my shelf.
[Via Of Arms and the Law]