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  • noun A history that goes against another history.

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counter- +‎ history

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Examples

  • John Heilemann offers a "counterhistory" in New York.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • As much as I like Kerry and as hard as I worked to get him elected, this counterhistory seems much less successful.

    Kerry v. Obama « Gerry Canavan 2008

  • But we don't have a counterhistory wherein some effort to protect equal rights for women has been in place since ancient Greek civilization (or I should say: the matriarchal civilization that the Greeks stole everything from!).

    Libertarian Blog Place 2010

  • In pursuit of an answer to that question, investigative journalist Russ Baker has constructed a full-fledged counterhistory of the last half-century as it pertains to the Bush family.

    media monarchy 2009

  • With sections about chain gangs, mental hospitals and lynch mobs, Cusac strings together a disquieting counterhistory of repressive violence, which, she suggests, has been inaccurately omitted from sunnier accounts of evolving disciplinary norms.

    Later On 2009

  • The three long thrillers that make up the trilogy (American Tabloid, 1995; The Cold Six Thousand, 2001; Blood's a Rover, 2009) present a brutal counterhistory of America in the 1960s and 1970s ” the assassinations, the social convulsions, the power-elite plotting ” through the lives of invented second - and third-echelon operatives in the great political crimes of the era.

    Fever Dreams of Your FBI Rush, Norman 2009

  • Russ Baker, says Aftergood, writes a "full-fledged counterhistory of the last half-century as it pertains to the Bush family.

    Prairie Weather 2009

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