Alternative history
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Alternative history may refer to a number of subjects relating to history, the chronology and study of the past. It may mean:
  • Alternate history, a subgenre of speculative fiction dealing with divergences from the world's actual history
  • Counterfactual history, a form of historiography which speculates on "what if" counterfactuals to actual history
  • Historical revisionism
    Historical revisionism
    In historiography, historical revisionism is the reinterpretation of orthodox views on evidence, motivations, and decision-making processes surrounding a historical event...

    , the reinterpretation of orthodox views on history or historiography
  • Secret history
    Secret history
    A secret history is a revisionist interpretation of either fictional or real history which is claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by established scholars.-Secret histories of the real world:...

    , historical events claimed by revisionists to have been deliberately suppressed or forgotten

See also

  • New Chronology (disambiguation)
  • Alternative (disambiguation)
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