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[[Category:Historiography]]
[[Category:Collective Memory]]
[[Category:Political History]]
[[Category:Historical Revisionism]]
[[Category:Memory Politics]]
[[Category:Political Ideologies]]
[[Category:Nationalism]]
[[Category:Transitional Justice]]

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== How Victors and Defeated Regimes Shape Historical Memory ==

This bibliography surveys scholarly research on the relationship between political power and historical memory. The collected works examine how governments, political movements, intellectuals, museums, schools, courts, archives, and public commemorations shape understandings of the past. Rather than treating history as a fixed record, these studies explore how competing interpretations emerge after wars, revolutions, colonialism, dictatorship, genocide, and regime change. Together they demonstrate that historical narratives remain contested long after political conflicts end.

=== General Historiography, Collective Memory, and Political Power ===

The sources introduce the theoretical foundations of collective memory, historiography, and memory politics. They examine how historical narratives are created, preserved, and challenged through political institutions, education, archives, journalism, public debate, and increasingly through artificial intelligence. Particular attention is given to how victorious governments establish official histories while defeated regimes, minorities, and marginalized communities preserve competing interpretations.

=== Defeated Regimes and Political Memory ===

Numerous works examine how former authoritarian, fascist, communist, and colonial regimes continue to influence public memory after their collapse. They explore political nostalgia, successor parties, competing interpretations of collaboration and resistance, and the gradual rehabilitation or rejection of former ideologies within democratic societies.

=== National Case Studies ===

The bibliography includes extensive regional studies covering:

* Spain and Francoism
* Germany and National Socialism
* Japan after the Second World War
* Communist and post-communist Europe
* Rwanda after the genocide
* Yugoslavia and the Balkan conflicts
* The American Civil War and the Lost Cause
* France under Vichy
* Colonial empires and decolonization

These case studies illustrate how different societies confront questions of guilt, victimhood, resistance, collaboration, national identity, reconciliation, and historical accountability.

=== Colonialism, Empire, and Decolonization ===

Several works examine how imperial powers constructed historical narratives that justified conquest, while post-colonial scholars investigate how colonized peoples recovered suppressed histories. The collection addresses colonial archives, language, education, cultural identity, anti-colonial resistance, and the long-term influence of imperial historical frameworks.

=== Archives, Museums, Monuments, and Education ===

Many sources explore the institutions that shape collective memory. Museums, memorials, monuments, textbooks, archives, and heritage sites are shown to play central roles in preserving particular historical interpretations while often marginalizing alternative perspectives. These studies demonstrate that public history is continuously negotiated through cultural institutions.

=== Transitional Justice and Historical Accountability ===

The bibliography surveys research on war crimes trials, truth commissions, memory laws, genocide studies, and transitional justice. These works examine how legal processes influence historical narratives by documenting atrocities, assigning responsibility, preserving evidence, and establishing public records that may either reinforce or challenge official accounts.

=== Counter-Memory and Marginalized Perspectives ===

Several works focus on oral history, subaltern studies, Indigenous perspectives, and community memory. These studies argue that official archives often exclude the experiences of ordinary people, minorities, colonized populations, and defeated political movements. Oral testimony and local memory provide alternative historical perspectives that complicate state-centered narratives.

=== Political Myth, Nostalgia, and Historical Identity ===

The collection explores how political myths, national traditions, nostalgia, and commemorative rituals shape public understanding of history. Rather than simply recording past events, societies often organize historical memory around stories of founding, sacrifice, betrayal, liberation, decline, or national rebirth that reinforce contemporary political identities.

=== Artificial Intelligence and Historical Narratives ===

Recent scholarship investigates how large language models and artificial intelligence influence historical interpretation. These studies analyze how AI systems may reproduce existing biases, amplify dominant narratives, or unintentionally spread historical revisionism depending on training data, prompting, and source selection. They highlight emerging challenges for preserving historical accuracy in the digital age.

=== Conclusion ===

Taken together, these sources demonstrate that history is not only the study of past events but also the study of how societies remember, interpret, and debate those events. Victorious governments, defeated regimes, political movements, historians, educators, legal institutions, and citizens all participate in constructing historical memory. The bibliography provides a broad foundation for understanding how competing interpretations of the past continue to shape contemporary politics, national identity, public discourse, and historical scholarship.

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=== Counter-Memory, Oral History, and Subaltern Perspectives ===
* May 26, 2026 — What Gets Lost When Memory Becomes Media? Evaluating AI-Generated Oral History Visualization
=== General Historiography, Collective Memory, and Political Power ===
* February 19, 2026 — Preserving Historical Truth: Detecting Historical Revisionism in Large Language Models
=== Spain, Francoism, and the Politics of Forgetting ===
* January 11, 2026 — Santa Clara 3D: Digital Reconstruction and Storytelling of a Francoist Concentration Camp
=== General Historiography, Collective Memory, and Political Power ===
* 2026 — Introduction: Afterlives of Empires in the Public Imagination
=== Japan, Imperial Defeat, and East Asian Memory ===
* August 15, 2025 — Japan Marks the 80th Anniversary of World War II Surrender as Concern Grows About Fading Memory
=== Defeated Fascist and Authoritarian Regimes ===
* 2025 — Are Slovaks a Nation of Cowards? Robert Fico’s Politics of Memory and the War in Ukraine
=== Spain, Francoism, and the Politics of Forgetting ===
* 2025 — Working on Democratic Memory Through Spanish History Textbooks
=== Korea, Vietnam, and Divided Cold War Memories ===
* 2025 — Reactionary Politics in South Korea
=== Defeated Fascist and Authoritarian Regimes ===
* 2024 — Authoritarian Nostalgia and Support for Populist Radical-Right Parties
=== Spain, Francoism, and the Politics of Forgetting ===
* 2024 — Beyond the Pact of Forgetting
=== Memory Politics and the Construction of Official History ===
* 2024 — The Political Force of Memory
* 2024 — Populist Memory Politics and the Performance of Victimhood
=== Latin American Dictatorships and Democratic Memory ===
* 2024 — Memory Scripts and Life History in the Shadow of Brazil’s Dictatorship
=== General Historiography, Collective Memory, and Political Power ===
* 2023 — The Politics of Memory: Between History, Identity and Conflict
=== Defeated Fascist and Authoritarian Regimes ===
* 2023 — Writing Histories of Everyday Life in Authoritarian Regimes
=== The American Civil War and the Lost Cause ===
* 2023 — The Lost Cause and Confederate Memory
=== Memory Politics and the Construction of Official History ===
* 2023 — Torture to Their Ears, Music to Ours: Memory Regimes and the Ordering of Political Space
=== Greece, Portugal, and Southern European Dictatorships ===
* 2023 — The Memory of Southern European Dictatorships in Popular Television Shows
=== General Historiography, Collective Memory, and Political Power ===
* 2022 — Memory Politics of the Far Right in Europe
* 2022 — Memory Crash: Politics of History in and Around Ukraine, 1980s–2010s
* 2022 — Memory, Institutions, and the Domestic Politics of South Korean–Japanese Relations
=== Spain, Francoism, and the Politics of Forgetting ===
* 2022 — A Forgetting for Everyone, by Everyone? Spain’s Memory Laws and the Dictatorship’s Victims
=== Colonialism, Decolonization, and Imperial Memory ===
* 2022 — The Imperial History Wars: Debating the British Empire
=== Germany, Nazism, and Postwar Memory ===
* May 23, 2021 — The German Catechism
=== Defeated Fascist and Authoritarian Regimes ===
* 2021 — The Illiberal Politics of Memory in Hungary
* 2021 — Generational Legacies of Authoritarianism: Evidence from Spain
* 2021 — End of War or End of State? 1918 in the Public Memories of Post-Communist Croatia and Serbia
=== Spain, Francoism, and the Politics of Forgetting ===
* 2021 — Mass Graves and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain
=== The American Civil War and the Lost Cause ===
* 2021 — The Lost Cause
=== Archives, Museums, Monuments, and Textbooks ===
* 2021 — Historical Museums Between Collective Memory and the Politics of Historical Memory
=== Memory Politics and the Construction of Official History ===
* 2021 — Politics of Memory and Nationalism
=== Greece, Portugal, and Southern European Dictatorships ===
* 2021 — The Colonels’ Dictatorship and Its Afterlives
=== General Historiography, Collective Memory, and Political Power ===
* 2020 — Historical Memory in Post-Communist Europe and the Rule of Law
* 2020 — A History of Post-Communist Remembrance: From Memory Politics to the Emergence of a Field of Antitotalitarian Memory
=== The American Civil War and the Lost Cause ===
* 2020 — The Lost Cause and Confederate Civil War Memory
=== Cold War Victory, Defeat, and Retrospective Narratives ===
* 2020 — The Myth of the Liberal Order
=== General Historiography, Collective Memory, and Political Power ===
* September 19, 2019 — History, Memory, and Politics in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
* 2019 — Why History Matters for Democracy
=== Germany, Nazism, and Postwar Memory ===
* 2019 — Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
=== Colonialism, Decolonization, and Imperial Memory ===
* 2019 — Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
=== Memory Politics and the Construction of Official History ===
* 2019 — Politics of Memory and Oblivion
=== Ottoman Defeat, Turkey, and the Armenian Genocide ===
* 2019 — The Thirty-Year Genocide
=== General Historiography, Collective Memory, and Political Power ===
* 2018 — Life After Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide
* 2018 — The Birth of the Memory of Communism: Memorial Museums in Europe
=== Spain, Francoism, and the Politics of Forgetting ===
* 2018 — Historical Memory in Post-Franco Spain
=== Memory Politics and the Construction of Official History ===
* 2018 — Memory Politics, Identity and Conflict
=== Latin American Dictatorships and Democratic Memory ===
* 2018 — Argentina’s Missing Bones
=== General Historiography, Collective Memory, and Political Power ===
* 2017 — Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia
=== Communism, Post-Communism, and Memory Wars ===
* 2017 — Memory Laws in Yeltsin’s Russia
=== Transitional Justice, Trials, and the Historical Record ===
* 2017 — Law and Memory: Toward Legal Governance of History
=== Memory Politics and the Construction of Official History ===
* 2017 — Memory in Post-Conflict Societies: From Contention to Integration?
=== Cold War Victory, Defeat, and Retrospective Narratives ===
* 2017 — The Cold War: A World History
=== Spain, Francoism, and the Politics of Forgetting ===
* 2016 — The Struggle for Historical Memory in Spain: Beyond Genealogy and Generations
=== Colonialism, Decolonization, and Imperial Memory ===
* 2016 — The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation
=== Transitional Justice, Trials, and the Historical Record ===
* 2016 — East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
=== Memory Politics and the Construction of Official History ===
* 2016 — Collective Memory, Politics, and the Influence of the Past
=== China, National Humiliation, and Revolutionary History ===
* 2016 — The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History
=== Korea, Vietnam, and Divided Cold War Memories ===
* 2016 — Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
=== General Historiography, Collective Memory, and Political Power ===
* 2015 — European Historical Memory: Policies, Challenges and Perspectives
* 2015 — The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Introduction to Volume III
=== Counter-Memory, Oral History, and Subaltern Perspectives ===
* 2015 — The Oral History Reader
=== Ottoman Defeat, Turkey, and the Armenian Genocide ===
* 2015 — They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else
* 2015 — Denial of Violence
=== Spain, Francoism, and the Politics of Forgetting ===
* January 20, 2014 — Memory Politics: On Franco’s Crypt
=== General Historiography, Collective Memory, and Political Power ===
* 2014 — Collective Memory
=== Latin American Dictatorships and Democratic Memory ===
* 2014 — The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War
=== China, National Humiliation, and Revolutionary History ===
* 2014 — The Cultural Revolution at the Margins
=== Ottoman Defeat, Turkey, and the Armenian Genocide ===
* 2014 — The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives
=== Communism, Post-Communism, and Memory Wars ===
* October 2013 — The Uses and Abuses of Russian History
=== France, Vichy, Resistance, and Collaboration ===
* 2013 — The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler
=== Italy, Fascism, Resistance, and Postwar Identity ===
* 2013 — Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy
* 2013 — Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance
=== Greece, Portugal, and Southern European Dictatorships ===
* 2013 — Children of the Dictatorship
=== Latin American Dictatorships and Democratic Memory ===
* 2013 — The Politics of Memory in Chile
* 2013 — Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay
=== China, National Humiliation, and Revolutionary History ===
* 2013 — Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937–1945
* 2013 — The Tragedy of Liberation
=== Defeated Fascist and Authoritarian Regimes ===
* 2012 — Sacrificial Memory and Political Legitimacy in Postwar Italy
=== South Africa, Apartheid, and Competing Liberation Histories ===
* 2012 — External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960–1990
=== China, National Humiliation, and Revolutionary History ===
* 2012 — Never Forget National Humiliation
=== Ottoman Defeat, Turkey, and the Armenian Genocide ===
* 2012 — The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity
=== Cold War Victory, Defeat, and Retrospective Narratives ===
* 2012 — How We Forgot the Cold War
=== Communism, Post-Communism, and Memory Wars ===
* 2011 — Russia and Europe in Memory Wars
* 2011 — The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
=== Rwanda, Genocide, and Postwar State Narratives ===
* 2011 — Rewriting History in Post-Genocide Rwanda
* 2011 — Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights After Mass Violence
=== Transitional Justice, Trials, and the Historical Record ===
* 2011 — Unspeakable Truths: Transitional Justice and the Challenge of Truth Commissions
* 2011 — The Justice Cascade
=== Italy, Fascism, Resistance, and Postwar Identity ===
* 2011 — Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy
=== The American Civil War and the Lost Cause ===
* 2010 — The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
* 2010 — The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader
=== Transitional Justice, Trials, and the Historical Record ===
* 2010 — Transitional Justice in Balance
=== Greece, Portugal, and Southern European Dictatorships ===
* 2010 — The Portuguese Revolution: State and Class in the Transition to Democracy
=== Latin American Dictatorships and Democratic Memory ===
* 2010 — Reckoning with Pinochet
=== China, National Humiliation, and Revolutionary History ===
* 2010 — Mao’s Great Famine
=== Korea, Vietnam, and Divided Cold War Memories ===
* 2010 — The Korean War: A History
=== Cold War Victory, Defeat, and Retrospective Narratives ===
* 2010 — The Shock of the Global
=== Japan, Imperial Defeat, and East Asian Memory ===
* April 13, 2009 — Japanese Textbook Controversies, Nationalism, and Historical Memory
=== Archives, Museums, Monuments, and Textbooks ===
* 2009 — Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape
=== France, Vichy, Resistance, and Collaboration ===
* 2009 — The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis
=== Greece, Portugal, and Southern European Dictatorships ===
* 2009 — A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire
=== Spain, Francoism, and the Politics of Forgetting ===
* 2008 — Turning Memories into History in the Spanish Year of Historical Memory
=== Japan, Imperial Defeat, and East Asian Memory ===
* 2008 — The Japanese History Textbook Controversy in East Asian Perspective
=== China, National Humiliation, and Revolutionary History ===
* 2008 — The Battle for China’s Past
=== Ottoman Defeat, Turkey, and the Armenian Genocide ===
* 2008 — Turkey’s Politics of National Identity
=== General Historiography, Collective Memory, and Political Power ===
* 2007 — The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility
=== Japan, Imperial Defeat, and East Asian Memory ===
* 2007 — Examining the Japanese History Textbook Controversies
* 2006 — War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005
=== Rwanda, Genocide, and Postwar State Narratives ===
* 2006 — The Order of Genocide
=== Political Myth, Nostalgia, and the Uses of the Past ===
* 2006 — History as Propaganda
=== Latin American Dictatorships and Democratic Memory ===
* 2006 — Battling for Hearts and Minds
=== Ottoman Defeat, Turkey, and the Armenian Genocide ===
* 2006 — A Shameful Act
=== Japan, Imperial Defeat, and East Asian Memory ===
* 2005 — Politics, Memory and Public Opinion: The History Textbook Controversy and Japanese Society
=== Communism, Post-Communism, and Memory Wars ===
* 2005 — Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
=== Colonialism, Decolonization, and Imperial Memory ===
* 2005 — The Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya
* 2005 — Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
=== Political Myth, Nostalgia, and the Uses of the Past ===
* 2005 — The Past Within Us
=== Italy, Fascism, Resistance, and Postwar Identity ===
* 2005 — Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915–1945
=== Latin American Dictatorships and Democratic Memory ===
* 2005 — The Pinochet Effect
=== Cold War Victory, Defeat, and Retrospective Narratives ===
* 2005 — The Global Cold War
* 2005 — Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
* 2005 — The Cold War: A New History
=== Communism, Post-Communism, and Memory Wars ===
* 2004 — National Identity in Russian Culture: An Introduction
=== Yugoslavia, Civil War, and Nationalist Histories ===
* 2004 — The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s
* 2004 — Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory
=== Memory Politics and the Construction of Official History ===
* 2004 — Memory, History, Forgetting
=== Latin American Dictatorships and Democratic Memory ===
* 2004 — Remembering Pinochet’s Chile
* 2004 — The Condor Years
=== South Africa, Apartheid, and Competing Liberation Histories ===
* 2004 — The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Apartheid
=== Ottoman Defeat, Turkey, and the Armenian Genocide ===
* 2004 — From Empire to Republic
=== Political Myth, Nostalgia, and the Uses of the Past ===
* 2003 — States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection
=== Italy, Fascism, Resistance, and Postwar Identity ===
* 2003 — The Order Has Been Carried Out
=== Latin American Dictatorships and Democratic Memory ===
* 2003 — State Repression and the Labors of Memory
=== South Africa, Apartheid, and Competing Liberation Histories ===
* 2003 — Unfinished Business: South Africa, Apartheid and Truth
* 2003 — Apartheid’s Festival: Contesting South Africa’s National Pasts
* 2003 — The Afrikaners: Biography of a People
=== Defeated Fascist and Authoritarian Regimes ===
* 2002 — Memory and Power in Post-War Europe
=== Spain, Francoism, and the Politics of Forgetting ===
* 2002 — Memory and Amnesia: The Role of the Spanish Civil War in the Transition to Democracy
=== Japan, Imperial Defeat, and East Asian Memory ===
* 2002 — Japan’s Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the US Occupation
=== Italy, Fascism, Resistance, and Postwar Identity ===
* 2002 — The Battle for Memory: The Esuli, Tito’s Yugoslavia and the Land of Trieste
=== South Africa, Apartheid, and Competing Liberation Histories ===
* 2002 — Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Miracle or Model?
=== Japan, Imperial Defeat, and East Asian Memory ===
* 2001 — Remembering the War in a Nation of Victims
=== Rwanda, Genocide, and Postwar State Narratives ===
* 2001 — When Victims Become Killers
=== The American Civil War and the Lost Cause ===
* 2001 — Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
=== Transitional Justice, Trials, and the Historical Record ===
* 2001 — The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust
=== Political Myth, Nostalgia, and the Uses of the Past ===
* 2001 — The Future of Nostalgia
=== France, Vichy, Resistance, and Collaboration ===
* 2001 — France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944
=== South Africa, Apartheid, and Competing Liberation Histories ===
* 2001 — The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
=== Cold War Victory, Defeat, and Retrospective Narratives ===
* 2001 — After Victory
=== Defeated Fascist and Authoritarian Regimes ===
* 2000 — The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery
=== Germany, Nazism, and Postwar Memory ===
* 2000 — Germany’s Nazi Past: A Critical History of the Goldhagen Debate
=== Transitional Justice, Trials, and the Historical Record ===
* 2000 — Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals
=== Counter-Memory, Oral History, and Subaltern Perspectives ===
* 2000 — Provincializing Europe
=== Political Myth, Nostalgia, and the Uses of the Past ===
* 2000 — Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community
=== France, Vichy, Resistance, and Collaboration ===
* 2000 — The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
* 2000 — The Politics of Retribution in Europe
=== Japan, Imperial Defeat, and East Asian Memory ===
* 1999 — Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
=== Communism, Post-Communism, and Memory Wars ===
* 1999 — The Black Book of Communism
* 1999 — The Passing of an Illusion
=== Rwanda, Genocide, and Postwar State Narratives ===
* 1999 — Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
=== Yugoslavia, Civil War, and Nationalist Histories ===
* 1999 — The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers
* 1998 — The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia
=== The American Civil War and the Lost Cause ===
* 1998 — Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
=== Memory Politics and the Construction of Official History ===
* 1998 — The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes
=== France, Vichy, Resistance, and Collaboration ===
* 1998 — The Unresolved Past: A Debate in French History and Memory
=== Italy, Fascism, Resistance, and Postwar Identity ===
* 1998 — Italian Fascism: History, Memory and Representation
* 1998 — The Italian Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism
* 1998 — The Fascist Experience in Italy
=== Latin American Dictatorships and Democratic Memory ===
* 1998 — A Lexicon of Terror
=== South Africa, Apartheid, and Competing Liberation Histories ===
* 1998 — Country of My Skull
=== Korea, Vietnam, and Divided Cold War Memories ===
* 1998 — The Spitting Image
=== Japan, Imperial Defeat, and East Asian Memory ===
* August 29, 1997 — Censored Textbooks
=== Defeated Fascist and Authoritarian Regimes ===
* 1997 — Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys
=== Political Myth, Nostalgia, and the Uses of the Past ===
* 1997 — National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents
=== Cold War Victory, Defeat, and Retrospective Narratives ===
* 1997 — We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
=== Yugoslavia, Civil War, and Nationalist Histories ===
* 1996 — Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation
=== The American Civil War and the Lost Cause ===
* 1996 — The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy
=== Archives, Museums, Monuments, and Textbooks ===
* 1996 — Dissonant Heritage: The Management of the Past as a Resource in Conflict
* 1996 — History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past
=== Counter-Memory, Oral History, and Subaltern Perspectives ===
* 1996 — A Rule of Property for Bengal
=== Political Myth, Nostalgia, and the Uses of the Past ===
* 1996 — Political Myth
* 1996 — Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory
=== Italy, Fascism, Resistance, and Postwar Identity ===
* 1996 — The Italians and the Holocaust
=== General Historiography, Collective Memory, and Political Power ===
* August 14, 1995 — The Politics of Memory
* 1995 — Collective Memory and Cultural Identity
=== Colonialism, Decolonization, and Imperial Memory ===
* 1995 — Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
=== Archives, Museums, Monuments, and Textbooks ===
* 1995 — Lies My Teacher Told Me
=== Ottoman Defeat, Turkey, and the Armenian Genocide ===
* 1995 — The History of the Armenian Genocide
=== Communism, Post-Communism, and Memory Wars ===
* 1994 — The Living and the Dead: The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia
=== The American Civil War and the Lost Cause ===
* 1994 — The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics
=== Political Myth, Nostalgia, and the Uses of the Past ===
* 1994 — Theatres of Memory
=== South Africa, Apartheid, and Competing Liberation Histories ===
* 1994 — Long Walk to Freedom
=== Germany, Nazism, and Postwar Memory ===
* 1993 — Forever in the Shadow of Hitler?
=== Archives, Museums, Monuments, and Textbooks ===
* 1993 — The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning
=== France, Vichy, Resistance, and Collaboration ===
* 1993 — The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews
=== Ottoman Defeat, Turkey, and the Armenian Genocide ===
* 1993 — The Making of Modern Turkey
=== China, National Humiliation, and Revolutionary History ===
* 1992–2005 — Mao’s Road to Power
=== Transitional Justice, Trials, and the Historical Record ===
* 1992 — The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
=== South Africa, Apartheid, and Competing Liberation Histories ===
* 1992 — Comrades Against Apartheid
=== Cold War Victory, Defeat, and Retrospective Narratives ===
* 1992 — The End of History and the Last Man
=== Counter-Memory, Oral History, and Subaltern Perspectives ===
* 1991 — The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories
=== France, Vichy, Resistance, and Collaboration ===
* 1991 — The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France Since 1944
=== China, National Humiliation, and Revolutionary History ===
* 1991 — Wild Swans
=== Korea, Vietnam, and Divided Cold War Memories ===
* 1991 — The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990
=== Counter-Memory, Oral History, and Subaltern Perspectives ===
* 1990 — Domination and the Arts of Resistance
=== Latin American Dictatorships and Democratic Memory ===
* 1990 — A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers
=== China, National Humiliation, and Revolutionary History ===
* 1990 — The Search for Modern China
=== Korea, Vietnam, and Divided Cold War Memories ===
* 1990 — The Vietnam Syndrome
=== France, Vichy, Resistance, and Collaboration ===
* 1989 — The Purge: The Purification of French Collaborators
=== Korea, Vietnam, and Divided Cold War Memories ===
* 1989 — The Korean War in History
=== Germany, Nazism, and Postwar Memory ===
* 1988 — The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity
=== Counter-Memory, Oral History, and Subaltern Perspectives ===
* 1988 — Can the Subaltern Speak?
* 1988 — Selected Subaltern Studies
=== Germany, Nazism, and Postwar Memory ===
* March 5, 1987 — The Past That Will Not Pass Away
=== The American Civil War and the Lost Cause ===
* 1987 — Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South
=== General Historiography, Collective Memory, and Political Power ===
* 1986 — Collective Memory and the Stakes of Power
=== Colonialism, Decolonization, and Imperial Memory ===
* 1986 — Decolonizing the Mind
=== Archives, Museums, Monuments, and Textbooks ===
* 1985 — The Past Is a Foreign Country
=== Counter-Memory, Oral History, and Subaltern Perspectives ===
* 1985 — Weapons of the Weak
=== Colonialism, Decolonization, and Imperial Memory ===
* 1983 — The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism
=== Archives, Museums, Monuments, and Textbooks ===
* 1983 — The Invention of Tradition
=== Korea, Vietnam, and Divided Cold War Memories ===
* 1983 — Vietnam: A History
=== Counter-Memory, Oral History, and Subaltern Perspectives ===
* 1982 — Popular Memory: Theory, Politics, Method
=== Korea, Vietnam, and Divided Cold War Memories ===
* 1981 — The Origins of the Korean War
* 1979 — America’s Longest War
=== Colonialism, Decolonization, and Imperial Memory ===
* 1978 — Orientalism
=== Defeated Fascist and Authoritarian Regimes ===
* 1975 — Inability to Mourn: Principles of Collective Behavior
=== Germany, Nazism, and Postwar Memory ===
* 1975 — The War Against the Jews, 1933–1945
=== France, Vichy, Resistance, and Collaboration ===
* 1972 — Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940–1944
=== Political Myth, Nostalgia, and the Uses of the Past ===
* 1954 — The Myth of the Eternal Return