History is falsified by coercion, intimidation, and pressure when direct force fails

Evidence

Coercion is the best method of falsifying history, but it is not always possible. The second best is intimidation. This can be quite effective. A number of years ago a history professor at the University of California at Los Angeles published a book that displeased some elements in the community. They picketed his lectures and his publishers and blew up his house. He and his family were in the house at the time. Miraculously they escaped. This seems to be an extreme and for most people unacceptable form of historical argumentation. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1847

Categorization

• CANDY: A history professor had his house blown up by protesters — a punchy, memorable anecdote.
• XREF: Lowlights a UCLA professor whose house was bombed — plausibly the Mahmoud case flagged in discussion of academic intimidation. — connects to: Coercion remains the most effective means of falsifying history — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1845