<p>In 1931, a Cambridge don, Herbert Butterfield, published <em>The Whig Interpretation of History.</em>&nbsp; The Whig historian, Butterfield said, is a bad historian because in embracing the British Whigs&rsquo; faith in freedom he studies the past, not for its own sake, but &ldquo;with reference to the present.&rdquo;&nbsp; In concentrating on the consequences, for liberty, of the acts of revolutionary statesmen, the Whig historian distorts history, and makes it into a narrative of the triump

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