secret history
Noun
Meaning
secret history (plural secret histories)
A revisionist interpretation of history, claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by established scholars.
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Examples
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
It is as though a star throws the whole secret history of its being into its spectrum, and we have only to learn how to read it aright in order to solve the most abstruse problems of the physical Universe.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
I worry that it's me they're really after.” "You don't exist. At the risk of wounding your ego, not everyone in the known universe is obsessed with you and your secret history.