"distorted history" is a correct phrase that can be used in written English.
For example, "The textbook contained many distortions of history, leading to a misunderstanding of the past."
Professor Rakove disagreed with that, saying misstatements about Madison's letter to Coxe showed how proponents of an individual right to arms distorted history.
The photography curators at MoMA need not worry: "Depth of Field" presents a distorted history of photography, dominated by white, mostly male Europeans and heavily weighted with references to history and landscape painting.
He ignored precedent, distorted history, imposed a rigid rather than a flexible construction on the Constitution, ignored specific grants of power in the Constitution, and tortured meanings out of other, more-obscure clauses.
He argued that the museum's exhibitions distorted history by glorifying the Aztecs, whom ruling party mythmakers had put at the core of national identity: an ancient, ruthless order sustained by the charisma of absolute rulers — not unlike the country's 20th-century presidents.
Irritation, that is, triggered by the unique Trump combination of narcissism and distorted history.
William Shakespeare followed this distorted history in describing both men and the Queen consort Gruoch in his play Macbeth.
Because Hungarian Communists repressed, denied, or distorted Hungarian history, Hungarian film and theatre directors raised the nonverbal "symbol" — visual political commentary, comprehensible to viewers but invisible to censors — to something close to an art form.
The new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, a hawk with distorted views of history, has already led Japan once.
It has also renewed its push for real-name registration on domestic services and deleted WeChat accounts that were "disseminating distorted versions of history".
A man who admits that he doesn't read newspapers but gets his news instead from his staff is more likely to have a distorted sense of history than any other kind.
