Facts are made things, so counter-history foregrounds the act of fact-making

Evidence

What I’m saying is that history is a storying, secondarily also by the arrangement and interpretation of “facts,” and facts are facta, past participle of facio, things that are made—made from conventional standards of truth-establishing, so that you can get a hold of “what really happened.” When you make an alternative history, it is this element of fact-making that comes most strongly to the fore. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 229

Categorization

• XREF: Central to the reader’s project: Spivak here grounds how ‘factual’ anchors of identity (Aryan migrations, defeat narratives) are themselves constructed — essential identities rest on made facts. — connects to: History is distorted chiefly through invention backed by fabricated evidence — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1834; Operational redefinitions transform historical falsehood into truth — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 406; In social theory, recognition of facts is critique of facts — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 459 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• History is distorted chiefly through invention backed by fabricated evidence #expands (0.75) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1834
• Operational redefinitions transform historical falsehood into truth #expands (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 406
• In social theory, recognition of facts is critique of facts #responds-to (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 459