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Textbooks Rewritten by Governments, and Other Fake and Hidden History

Khalid Elhassan May 16, 2024 30 min

Textbooks of neighboring rivals india and pakistan teach wildly different histories of the same events — School textbooks of neighboring rivals India and Pakistan teach wildly different histories of the same events. Dawn

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Where Did We Find This Stuff? Some Sources and Further Reading

Archaeology Magazine, Volume 54, Number 1, January / February 2001 – “God’s Hands” Did the Devil’s Work

Atlantic, The, September 25^th, 2013 – How Alcohol Conquered Russia

Atlantic, The, December 19^th, 2017 – Trofim Lysenko: The Soviet Era’s Deadliest Scientist is Regaining Popularity in Russia

Big Think – Project 100,000: The Vietnam War’s Cruel Experiment on American Soldiers

Boleslaw, Mastai – The Stars and the Stripes: The American Flag as Art and as History from the Birth of the Republic to the Present (1973)

Burrough, Bryan; Tomlinson, Chris; Stanford, Jason – Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth (2021)

Encyclopedia Britannica – Donation of Constantine

Furlong, William Rea – So Proudly We Hail: The History of the United States Flag (1981)

Gainsville Times, January 5^th, 2022 – The Truth Behind Oscarville and the Violent Removal of Black Residents from Forsyth County Years Before Lake Lanier Was Built

Gardner, Martin – Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1957)

History Collection – 10 of the Deadliest Global Pandemics of All Time

Holocaust Encyclopedia – Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Listverse – 10 Times Governments Edited Textbooks to Rewrite History

Macalister College – Vodka: The Bitter Stuff

Phillips, Patrick – Blood at the Roots: A Racial Cleansing in America (2016)

Salon – McNamara’s “Moron Corps”

Scroll In, August 14^th, 2016 – Why do Indian and Pakistani Textbooks Tell Wildly Different Histories?

Smithsonian Magazine, November 22^nd, 2011 – The True Story Behind Plymouth Rock

Time Magazine, June 9^th, 2021 – We’ve Been Telling the Alamo Story Wrong for Nearly 200 Years

Travel Noir – 5 Black American Towns Hidden Under Lakes and Ultimately from History Books

United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary – Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Fabricated ‘Historic’ Document

World History Encyclopedia – Donation of Constantine

Written by

Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.

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