Alternate History
Alternative history or alternate history can be:
- A genre of science fiction: see Alternative history (fiction).
- The academic extrapolation of alternate outcomes of historical events: see virtual history.
- A construction of past events which is refuted in verifiable or otherwise generally accepted sources: see historical revisionism. Support for the history is generally undocumented or poorly documented. Belief in such histories are often based in belief of a conspiracy theory to explain its lack of documentation.
- A History told from an alternative viewpoint, such as a indigenous people rather then a explorer of them. For example: "Herstory" or history from a female perspective.
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