James Joseph Martin (1916–2004) was an American historian and author known for espousing

Holocaust denial Historical negationism, Denial of the Holocaust is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the genocide of Jews by the Nazi Party, Nazis is a fabrication or exaggeration. It includes making one or more of the following false claims: ...

in his works. He is known for his book, ''American Liberalism and World Politics, 1931–1941'' (1964). Fellow Holocaust denier

Harry Elmer Barnes Harry Elmer Barnes (June 15, 1889 – August 25, 1968) was an American historian who, in his later years, was known for his historical revisionism and Holocaust denial. After receiving a PhD at Columbia University in 1918 Barnes became a pro ...

called it "unquestionably the most formidable achievement of World War II Revisionism."

Education

University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire, United States. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant coll ...

1942 *

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

Master's degree in 1945, doctorate in history in 1949

Teaching

After a teaching career at

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San Francisco State College San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is part of the Califor ...

, and

Deep Springs College Deep Springs College (known simply as Deep Springs or DS) is a private junior college in Deep Springs, California. With the number of undergraduates restricted to 26, the college is one of the smallest institutions of higher education in the U ...

, he took a job teaching at

Robert LeFevre Robert LeFevre (October 13, 1911 – May 13, 1986) was an American libertarianism, libertarian businessman, radio personality, and primary theorist of autarchism. Early life LeFevre was born in Gooding, Idaho, on October 13, 1911, but when h ...

Rampart College Rampart College, also referred to as the Freedom College was an unaccredited American libertarian educational institution established in 1956 by Robert LeFevre in Colorado. The college was a four-year school for followers of LeFevre's autarchism ...

, assuming it would be a full-time job. This was not the case as Rampart College was not yet really a college but only a series of workshop/lectures on libertarian political economy. That led to an eventual falling out between Martin and LeFevre when Rampart College went out of business three years after Martin was hired, with Martin charging LeFevre with a breach of his five-year contract.

Holocaust denial

Martin, a disciple of Holocaust revisionist

, "lacked his mentor's prestige and reputation but had important contacts in the libertarian right", according to the historian John P. Jackson Jr. In the 1950s and 1960s, Barnes and Martin corresponded about how to "debunk" the number of six million Jews murdered in the

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. From 1979, Martin began to associate with the

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(IHR), a

group, writing for the IHR journal, ''The Journal of Historical Review''. Brian Doherty notes in ''

Radicals for Capitalism ''Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement'' is a 2007 book about the history of 20th-century American libertarianism by journalist and ''Reason'' senior editor Brian Doherty. He traces the ...

'': "Martin, in his attempt to adjust standard historical understandings of war and war guilt, shifted into questioning the veracity of standard anti-German atrocity stories, including the standard details of the Holocaust", calls it an "unfortunate shading over into Hitler apologetics", and that Martin stated as early as 1976 "I don't believe that the evidence of a planned extermination of the entire Jewish population of Europe is holding up."Doherty, p. 635

Works

Books

* ''Men Against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827–1908''. Foreword by

. Dekalb, Ill.: Adrian Allen Associates (1953). Audiobook. ** Republished by Ralph Myles (1970), the

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(2009), and via

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(2010).
''American Liberalism and World Politics, 1931–1941: Liberalism's Press and Spokesmen on the Road Back to War Between Mukden and Pearl Harbor''.
(Volumes 1 and 2). Foreword by John Chamberlain. New York:

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(1964).
''Revisionist Viewpoints: Essays in a Dissident Historical Tradition''.
Colorado Springs, Colo.: Ralph Myles (1971). * ''Watershed of Empire: Essays on New Deal Foreign Policy'', edited with

Leonard Liggio Leonard P. Liggio (July 5, 1933 – October 14, 2014) was a classical liberal author, research professor of law at George Mason University and executive vice president of the Atlas Network in Fairfax, Virginia. Career In 1965, Liggio gave lectur ...

. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Ralph Myles (1976). * ''The Saga of Hog Island and Other Essays in Inconvenient History''. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Ralph Myles (1977). * ''Beyond Pearl Harbor: Essays on Some Historical Consequences of the Crisis in the Pacific in 1941''. Little Current, ON: Plowshare Press (1981). .
''The Man Who Invented 'Genocide': The Public Career and Consequences of Raphael Lemkin''.
Torrance, Calif.:

(1984). * ''An American Adventure in Bookburning: In the Style of 1918''. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Ralph Myles (1988).

Book reviews

* Review of ''National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union'' by

Antony C. Sutton Antony Cyril Sutton (February 14, 1925 – June 17, 2002) was a British-American writer, researcher, economist, and professor. Early life and education Antony C. Sutton was born in London on February 14, 1925 to Edward Ceril Sutton and Marjorie ...

. ''

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'', vol. 11, no. 1 (Nov. 1976). Archived fro
the original.

Articles

''Amateur Book Collector'', vol. 5, no. 4 (Dec. 1954).

References

External links

James J. Martin
at the

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