shadow history

British  

noun

1. another name for secret history

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Example Sentences

In that light, the book is also a kind of shadow history of Americans’ distrust in government through much of the 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times

In “American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption,” Gabrielle Glaser tells the story of Katz and the boy she could never reach, whom she was forced, as a teenager, to give up for adoption.

From Washington Post

Poised between wild fantasy and thought experiment, Descartes’ demon is only the first of many such creatures to appear in Jimena Canales’s bestiary “Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science.”

From Washington Post

“You could basically tell a lot of big stories about the world at the time by looking at how they were perturbing the spam space,” said Finn Brunton, a media studies professor at N.Y.U. and the author of “Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet.”

From New York Times

Like any account of how much fun New York used to be, it is also a shadow history of real estate.

From The New Yorker