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:''For the [[speculative fiction]] subgenre, see [[alternate history (fiction)]] |
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'''Alternative history''' or '''alternate history''' develops out of [[historiography]] to identify historical points of view that have been ignored, overlooked, or unseeable. It usually denotes a [[history]] told from an alternative viewpoint, rather than from the view (actual or ascribed, obvious or inferred) of imperialists, conquerors or explorers. For example ''[[A People's History of the United States]]'' offers a view sympathetic to people [[Native Americans (Americas)|indigenous to the Americas]], while the term ''[[Herstory]]'' was coined to denote history presented from a feminist perspective. |
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This falls into two major categories: |
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* [[Historical revisionism]] is the reexamination of the accepted facts and interpretations of history, with an eye towards updating it with newly discovered, more accurate, less biased or differently biased information. |
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* When revisionism takes on a partisan tone, it is usually called [[historical revisionism (negationism)|political historical revisionism]] i.e. a construction of past events which is refuted by well documented, verifiable, and very broadly accepted sources. Such histories may tend to blame their lack of scholarship or documentation on a [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy]] to erase such evidence. |
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Other alternative histories include: |
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* The genre of speculative fiction includes the subgenre of [[Alternate history (fiction)|fictitious alternative history]], set in worlds in which history has diverged from history as it actually happened. The term [[uchronia]] refers to a hypothetical time period in such a divergent world. |
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* [[Failed history]] covers events that have been predicted and had items created in the expectation that they would occur, but then in fact did not occur. |
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* [[Counterfactual history]] is a form of history which attempts to answer "what if" questions. It is an academic extrapolation of alternate outcomes of historical events. |
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