Meaning

The stories of ordinary people who are not considered historical..

Definitions by Sense

1. The stories of ordinary people who are not considered historical.
2. The suppressed history of controversial events.
3. Inaccurate representations of the past that are presented as history.

Example Sentences

The mill-house, like the family of the miller, is for Hardy a representative part of the unhistory of the country, what we now know as local history, and which many consider to be the only sure basis of any historical knowledge;

Hagen and Zelman note that "what we lost" is also the "unwritten sufferings of ordinary women, ordinary people" who "are doomed to become unhistory" (445).

Savageau’s “unhistory” tells the stories of her people without privileging the moment of contact with Europe as the defining moment for viewing the culture.

Somehow, in this eerie age of unhistory, the whole meaning and purpose of life has been twisted around, warped and distorted.

Kutler says, "Nixon would have us make unhistory out of a sequence of events for which we have ample evidence.

Moreover, once retrieved, suppressed events, confrontational episodes, submerged political upheavals, abortive uprising offer symbolic density or enrichment to current circumstances. They enlarge the retina of the political eye. How to transform the unhistory of the negativized, to make the anonymes impinge on history, is one way to put the matter.

This chapter intends to expose the lies of the state in order to uncensor the “unhistory” of the Kent State massacre, while also aiming toward justice and healing, as censoring the past impacts our perspectives in the present.

Thus, settler colonialism involves a daedal arrangement of justifications and unhistories in order to deny genocide and brutality.

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• unhistories

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Use unhistory when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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