Dónal O’Sullivan is a history professor at California State University, Northridge, and his research areas are Russian history and 20th century European history.

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• Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Forgeries in Antiquity2. Pious Fraud: On Christian ­Pseudo-Epigraphy3. The ­Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals: The Perpetual Puzzle4. To Dare to Speak Out: Lorenzo Valla and the Donation of Constantine5. Tuscan Pride: Viterbo, Volterra and the Etruscan Scarith6. The Forged Past: Romantic Imagination and Nationalism7. Charles Bertram: The Forger of Roman Britain8. The Wagenfeld Case9. The Case of Constantine Simonides10. Nationalist Myths: Herder’s Influence11. The Fame of the Nation: Hanka’s Czech Forgeries12. British Forgeries: Parnell and Piggott13. Peter the Great’s Fourteen Points: Russia’s Master Plan14. Forged Autographs: The Duped Mathematician15. Patriotic Fraud: The “Faux Henry” of the Dreyfus Case16. Fabricating Hatred: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion17. Chinese Mirrors: The Mannix and Backhouse Forgeries18. Fanning the Red Scare: The Zinoviev Letter19. Washington’s Regrets: American Forgeries20. Fabricated Frontier History: The Horn Papers21. The FBI “Suicide Letter” to Martin Luther King, Jr.22. Cold War Campaigns: Soviet Disinformation Forgeries23. Texfake: Forged Documents from the Alamo Period24. Master Forger, Duped Historian: The Hitler Diaries25. Rathergate: The Killian Documents26. Letter from the Desert: The “Gay Jesus” Gospel27. Invented Fragments: The Fake Holocaust Survivor28. Forging with Photopolymer Plates: Galileo’s Starry MessengerConclusion: How Forged Documents Benefit HistoryChapter NotesBibliographyIndex