Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

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Michael S. Heiser. "The Myth of a Sumerian 12th Planet" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 November 2008 . Retrieved 30 July 2017. Marchand, Laure; Perrier, Guillaume (2015). Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the Genocide. McGill-Queen's Press. pp.111–112. ISBN 978-0-7735-9720-4. The Iğdır genocide monument is the ultimate caricature of the Turkish government's policy of denying the 1915 genocide by rewriting history and transforming victims into guilty parties. I could go on, so I will. Churchill did not “reinvent” himself as a journalist for the Second Boer War – he had previously covered the Cuban insurrection for the Daily Graphic, been commissioned as war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and covered the reconquest of Sudan for the Morning Post. Churchill was not “alone” in his opposition to Indian independence in the 1930s – the Government of India Act of 1935 was intended by the government to secure British rule of India, not pave the way for independence. Obama did not remove Churchill’s bust because his grandfather was tortured while Churchill was PM – it is doubtful that his grandfather was ever imprisoned by the British and in any case, he was allegedly arrested while Attlee was PM. Artillery did not shell the East End of London during the siege of Sidney Street. English, Otto (27 July 2021). "England's Upper Classes – A Dangerous Cult". Byline Times . Retrieved 27 December 2021. Mixed thoughts here. I enjoyed my undergraduate studies in history, and plan to continue them in the next few years. There was certainly an odour of ‘we know real history, unlike those dumb right wing politicans’ present in my third year units. Yet it is good to challenge misconceptions people have about the past.

It is true that sometimes nations that win wars are “successful” because they take advantage of others. Yet it is equally true that, in the end, virtue often prevails. The United States is far from a perfect nation, but many American schools, politicians, and leaders appear to have forgotten that immigrants desire to come to our country in such numbers largely because they view it as a beacon in the midst of an otherwise often oppressive world.

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Journalist and author Otto English takes apart ten of the greatest lies from history and shows how our present continues to be twisted and manipulated by the fabrications of the past. Boston, Rob (2007). "Dissecting the religious right's favorite Bible Curriculum", Americans United for Separation of Church and State, American Humanist Association. Retrieved on April 9, 2013 In 2023, English published a follow-up book, Fake Heroes, in which he profiles ten historical figures and analyses myths connected to them. [9]

Cheterian 2015, pp.65–66. "Some of the proponents of this official narrative have even gone so far as to claim that the Armenians were the real aggressors, and that Muslim losses were greater than those of the Armenians." harvnb error: no target: CITEREFCheterian2015 ( help) Boia, Lucian (1997). Istorie și mit în conștiința românească. Bucharest, Romania: Humanitas. p.160–1. Gürpınar 2016, p.234. "Maintaining that 'the best defence is a good offence', the new strategy involved accusing Armenians in response for perpetrating genocide against the Turks. The violence committed by the Armenian committees under the Russian occupation of Eastern Anatolia and massacring of tens of thousands of Muslims (Turks and Kurds) in revenge killings in 1916–17 was extravagantly displayed, magnified and decontextualized." harvnb error: no target: CITEREFGürpınar2016 ( help) The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a fraudulent work purporting to show a historical conspiracy for world domination by Jews. [22] The work was conclusively proven to be a forgery in August 1921, when The Times revealed that extensive portions of the document were directly plagiarized from Maurice Joly's 1864 satirical dialogue The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, [23] as well as Hermann Goedsche's 1868 anti-Semitic novel Biarritz. [24] James L. Houlden (2003). Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture: Entries A–J. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-57607-856-3.Regal, Brian (2019). "Everything Means Something in Viking". Skeptical Inquirer. Vol.43, no.6. Center for Inquiry. pp.44–47.