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Conspiracy theories

Here are entered works on theories that postulate that certain events or phenomena occurred as a result of conspiracies among interested parties. Works on a particular event that is considered by some to be the result of a conspiracy are entered under the heading or headings appropriate for the event.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• History -- Errors, inventions, etc.

• Conspiracy theories -- United States
• Conspiracy theories in literature

• Conspiracy theory

• What to Do About Conspiracy Theories? Academic Entanglements in Conflicts Over Truths (London and New York: Routledge, c2024), ed. by Elżbieta Drążkiewicz and Jaron Harambam
  • multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 (London and New York: Routledge, c2023), by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• The Cause of World Unrest (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), contrib. by H. A. Gwynne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Susan Claudia Lepselter
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Republic of Cthulhu: Lovecraft, the Weird Tale, and Conspiracy Theory (Earth: Punctum Books, c2016), by Eric Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at Punctum Books)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Columbia Encyclopedia's Crimes Against the Truth, by Joseph McCabe (HTML at infidels.org)
• Some Lies and Errors of History (seventh edition; Notre Dame, IN: The Ave Maria, c1893), by Reuben Parsons (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• The Journal of Historical Review (partial serial archives)

• The Dispute of the New World: The History of a Polemic, 1750-1900 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1973), by Antonello Gerbi, trans. by Jeremy Moyle (page images at Pitt)

• Croatia: Myth and Reality (third edition, 1997), by C. Michael McAdams (HTML at hir.hr)

• Address Delivered by Miss Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Historian General, United Daughters of the Confederacy: Wrongs of History Righted (1914), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust