T.R., this board is not one of the last battlegrounds; for those who populate this board are all pretty much of like mind. The opposition (the apologists we speak of) are not present on this board. I would venture to say that everyone reading our short thread is in agreement that revisionist history, particularly revisionist history to fit preconceived 20th/21st century political purposes is wholly without merit and brands the revisionist as a person of lowly character.
The battleground you refer to is in our schools, in our newspapers, in the form of letters to elected officials, in speeches to parents and community groups, in letters to the editor, in protests directed at history publishers and the academic consultants they use to write and review their newly published revisionist histories, and in refusing to elect politicians who promote such "enlightened" federal educational programs as "No Child Left Behind" which has no history component and, hence, encourages local teachers to test to the test which, conveniently, bypasses history. Those are the real battlegrounds. That is where the fight is taking place. What happens on this board is little more than a warm up for the real battle, if that.
There is a time in one's life to fight the fight, and another time to leave it to youngsters whose testosterone level still drives them to engage, engage and engage. You won't find the enemy on this board, T.R., and suggesting that I am one who will "stand silently by and hide myself in my books and papers" is an assumption, nothing more, nothing less, and you know the definition of that word as well as I do.
Speaking only for myself and, apparently unlike you, I do not believe the fight in our schools and Colleges is lost. Time remains for grass roots efforts, with strong leadership, to turn things around by engaging individual school teachers, school principals, Boards of Supervisors, etc. In my time, I have seen this work and I believe the direct, face-to-face grassroots level assault can work again.
Concerning my Mississippi grandfathers and great uncles - in their youth, they would have carried the anti-revisionism arguments onto the battlefield I just described. Later in life, they (among those who were left after the War) would have carried the battle down to Ayers Shop, the local blacksmith shop in Rocky Point, Mississippi, and gathered around with other like-minded people, as we do here on this board, and debated the issue as we are doing, but to no real effect.
There you have my answer as to what my grandparents would have done and, in their time, did.