1st Edition

Doctoring Documents Mistruth in History and Cybersecurity

By Steven Simske, Dallen Simske Copyright 2025
354 Pages 1 Color Illustrations
by River Publishers

354 Pages 1 Color Illustrations
by River Publishers

This book explores the primary methods, presented as a set of thirteen patterns, used to insert mistruth in historical narratives. These patterns culminate in the broadest of patterns, versioning and propaganda, which are used to show that mistruth is unavoidable in any historical narrative. This also supports the argument that a primary task of the historian is to provide their own contextual... Read more

1. Overview, Outline, Introduction

2. Omissions

3. Disparity

4. Generalization

5. Differential Emphasis and Evaluation

6. Omniscient Historian

7. Anachronism

8. Romantic Nationalism, Favoritism, Provincialism, Racism, Ismism

9. Emboldening Situations

10. Valence and Arousal, Kronos, Timing in a Document

11. Hyperbole

12. Transitive Trust and Transitive “Sus”

13. Versioning

14. Propaganda

15. Summary and Conclusions

Biography

Steve Simske worked in a NASA CCDS (Center for the Commercial Development of Space) from 1988–2007, part-time after 1994. Steve worked for HP and HP Labs for 23 years and was an HP Fellow and Vice President before joining CSU as a Professor in 2018. He is an IEEE Fellow, a NAI (National Academy of Inventors) Fellow, and an IS&T (Imaging.org) Fellow. Steve won a Colorado State Teacher of the Year Award in 2022. Steve has roughly 250 US patents and this is his sixth book.

Dallen Simske received an Honors B.S. in History from Colorado State University in 2024. Dallen has experience in theatre, music, and teaching professions. This is Dallen’s first book.