Books about how historical narratives can be abused and misused to justify misogyny, slavery, colonialism and exclusion.
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last updated March, 2026
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
Dan Hicks
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Jeanne Theoharis
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
David W. Blight
The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate
Curtis Dozier
Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World
Vinzenz Brinkmann
Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies)
Andrew Albin
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
Donna Zuckerberg
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