How Victors and Defeated Regimes Write Ideological History
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.
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