The Use and Misuse of History: Legitimacy, Myth, Propaganda and Denial

What this note covers

1. Use and misuse: why the distinction is hard
2. History as legitimacy: rulers and regimes
3. Nationalism, myth and commemoration
4. Denial and the courtroom: Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt
5. Australia's history wars as a case of contested use
6. Writing about use and misuse with control

6 sections · 10 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes