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- noun A
history that goes against another history.
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Examples
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John Heilemann offers a "counterhistory" in New York.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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As much as I like Kerry and as hard as I worked to get him elected, this counterhistory seems much less successful.
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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!).
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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
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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
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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
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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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