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From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide. 'A brilliant book.' James O'Brien Was Che Guevara really a revolutionary hero?...

A fun, authoritative and alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever told and how they've been used over time. Lincoln did not believe all men were created equal. The Aztecs were not slaughtered by the Spanish Conquistadors. And Churchill was not the man that people love to remember. Journalist and author Otto English takes apart 10 of the greatest lies from history and shows how our present continues to be twisted and manipulated by the fabrications of the past.

In today’s chaotic world, where the multiplication of information sources creates competing narratives, credibility is the key to winning the war of ideas. This is the reason why governments and corporations resort to astroturfing - creation of ostensibly grassroots movements set up to advance political agendas and commercial campaigns. The democratization of information and polarization of politics offer a perfect storm.

In Hate Crime Hoax, professor Wilfred Reilly examines over 100 widely publicized incidents of so-called hate crimes that never actually happened. With a critical eye and attention to detail, Reilly debunks these fabricated incidents - many of them alleged to have happened on college campuses - and explores why so many Americans are driven to fake hate crimes. We're not experiencing an epidemic of hate crimes, Reilly concludes - but we might be experiencing an unprecedented epidemic of hate crime hoaxes. 

Lady Grace Wyatt is content as a wallflower, focusing on scientific pursuits rather than the complications of society matches. But when a handsome, celebrated naturalist returns from abroad, Grace wishes, for once, to be noticed. Her solution: to create the perfect man, to act as her suitor, and help her catch his eye. Grace’s colleague, anthropologist Sebastian Holloway, is just the blank slate she requires. 

A podcast about myths we think are history and history that might be hidden in myths! Awesome stories that really (maybe) happened!

Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has sold over 2.5 million copies and is still required reading in some high school and college classrooms. But its polemic rewriting of American history as a story of oppression is an agenda-driven fairy tale that has no place in academia. In Debunking Howard Zinn, Mary Grabar debunks Howard Zinn’s lies and traces the damage his mega-bestseller has done to American education, culture, and politics.  

In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers know that the staff were undercover spies, working for the Mossad - the Israeli secret service. Providing a front for covert night-time activities, the holiday village allowed the agents to carry out an operation unlike any seen before. What began with one cryptic message pleading for help, turned into the secret evacuation of thousands of Ethiopian Jews....

Almost nobody is lying. That is the problem.We have built an entire vocabulary around the idea that false belief is manufactured by people who know better — fake news, disinformation, propaganda, the troll farm, the bad actor. The vocabulary flatters us. It lets us imagine that somewhere...

As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinne rand that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences. A History of Fake Things on the Internet takes the long view of how advances in technology brought us to the point where faked texts, images, and video content are nearly indistinguishable from what is authentic or true.

The Mound Builder Myth is the first book to chronicle the attempt to recast the Native American burial mounds as the work of a lost white race of “true” native Americans. Thomas Jefferson’s pioneering archaeology concluded that the earthen mounds were the work of Native Americans. In the 1894 report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Cyrus Thomas concurred, drawing on two decades of research. But in the century in between, the lie took hold, with presidents Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln adding their approval.

American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories we’re told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a force for good in the world, regardless of slavery, the genocide of indigenous people, and the more than a century’s worth of imperialist war that the U.S. has wrought on the planet. Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong detail just what Captain America’s shield tells us about the pretensions of U.S. foreign policy, how Angelina Jolie and Bill Gates engage in humanitarian imperialism, and more.

Vom berühmten Ausspruch »Dann sollen sie doch Kuchen essen«, der Marie Antoinette bis heute zu Unrecht zugeschrieben wird, bis zu den angeblichen Hörnern auf Wikingerhelmen: Hartnäckige Geschichtsmythen begegnen uns überall – in den Medien, im Internet und besonders in den sozialen Netzwerken. Die Historikerin und als »The Fake History Hunter« bekannte Jo Teeuwisse geht 101 der verbreitetsten Irrtümer auf den Grund und zeigt, wie solche Legenden überhaupt entstehen konnten.

Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended was the 161-year-old nursemaid to George Washington.

¡Paren las rotativas, el escándalo de nuevo salpica la Historia de España! ¡Nuevos datos escalofriantes sobre el "genocidio" en América! ¡Fotos inéditas tomadas del natural del Duque de Alba comiendo niños crudos en Holanda! ¡Pruebas inequívocas de que de la Inquisición española mató a Manolete! Este no es otro audiolibro sobre la Leyenda Negra hispanófoba. Esta una revisión, con todo el sarcasmo del que hace gala Javier Santamarta, para poner en evidencia tanto odio y sectarismo absurdo hacia la historia de este país.

REAL OR FAKE? HISTORY AND SCIENCE is a card game in which players read facts about history or science on cards and other players have to tell whether that information is true or false. The winner keeps the cards, and when the game ends, the player with the most cards wins. You’ll also learn some amazing facts about history and science as you play the game.

Fake News is everywhere - but what to do about it?Leading thinkers on politics and beyond in East-Central Europe discuss how history and science have become weaponized to support illiberal agendas. This is a lively, urgent contribution to the understanding of pseudoscience, and uses / abuses of history. In conversation with regional experts, Dr Robert Pyrah and Prof. Marius Turda. Supported by the Royal Institution, Open Society Foundation and Oxford Brookes University. New Episodes monthly.Listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon or Acast. Audio editing by https://...

Step into a gripping true crime history where audacious con artists manipulate human psychology to sell the ultimate lie. Perfect for an engaging morning commute or a deeply focused learning session, this fast-paced narrative exposes how brilliant frauds have continuously outsmarted the greatest...

In a straightforward manor; author David Manderbach addresses the inaccuracies of the foundation of the attacks to the Southern Heritage and America's History; the association to Slavery. A fabricated narrative of the Civil War, and the guilt of slavery, that existed since recorded time; has been laid at the feet of the Southern cause and those that celebrate their Southern heritage. The onslaught against all things southern has evolved into like condemnation of America itself, creating victims with an endless thirst for retribution of slavery that will never be satisfied.

Columbus hat Amerika entdeckt, König Artus war ein edler Ritter und Caesar war ein genialer Feldherr. Es gibt nicht nur Fake News, sondern auch Fake History. Geschichte ist das, was die Mächtigen erzählen. Kaiser, Herrscher, Präsidenten. Sie erzählen von ihren Siegen, Eroberungen und Heldentaten. Kurz, sie erzählen, wie sie selbst gern gesehen werden wollen. So entstehen Mythen, Halbwahrheiten und Lügen. Legenden, die wir glauben, einfach, weil sie uns immer wieder so erzählt werden. Und sich dadurch ins kollektive Bewusstsein eingebrannt haben. Was passiert, wenn man nach den ...