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 indigenous to the Americas, while the term Herstory was coined to denote history presented from a feminist perspective. Historiography is a term with multiple meanings that has changed with time, place and observer, and is thus resistant to a single encompassing meaning. ... HIStory - Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double-disc album (one half greatest hits, one half studio album) by American musician Michael Jackson released in June of 1995 by the Epic Records division of Sony BMG. The first disc, (HIStory Begins) contains fifteen hit singles from the past... A Peoples History of the United States, 2003 hardcover edition A Peoples History of the United States is a nonfiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn, in which he seeks to present American history through the eyes of groups he says are rarely heard in... Brazilian Indian chiefs The scope of this indigenous peoples of the Americas article encompasses the definitions of indigenous peoples and the Americas as established in their respective articles. ... Herstory is a term which originated as a neologism. ...

This falls into two major categories:

• 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.
• When revisionism takes on a partisan tone, it is usually called 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 to erase such evidence.

Other alternative histories include: In Parson Weems Fable (1939) Grant Wood takes a sly poke at a traditional hagiographical account of George Washington Historical revisionism has both a legitimate academic use and a pejorative meaning. ... Historical revisionism is the attempt to change commonly held ideas about the past. ... For other uses, see Conspiracy theory (disambiguation). ...

• The genre of speculative fiction includes the subgenre of 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.
• 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. It is similar to the first category, but carried out with academic intent rather than to entertain. These two categories may blur into each other.
• 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.

Alternative history or alternate history can be: A History told from an alternative viewpoint, rather than from the view of imperialist, conqueror, or explorer. ... Uchronia refers to a hypothetical time period of our world, in contrast to fictional lands or worlds. ... Counterfactual history, also sometimes referred to as virtual history, is a recent form of history which attempts to answer what if questions known as counterfactuals. ...

See also

• Atlantis
• Disclosure Project
• Heresy
• Lemuria (continent)
• Mu
• Pseudohistory
• Shambhala

People For other uses, see Atlantis (disambiguation). ... The Disclosure Project is a not for profit orginization dedicated to disclosing, unclassifying, and conducting hearings related to Shadow Governments, U.F.O.s, extraterrestrial life, advanced technologies. ... Look up Heresy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Lemuria is the name of a hypothetical lost land variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. ... Underwater structures controversially identified as remnants of Mu, near Yonaguni, Japan Mu is the name of a hypothetical vanished continent. ... Pseudohistory is a pejorative term applied to texts which purport to be historical in nature but which depart from standard historiographical conventions in a way which undermines their conclusions. ... Kalachakra [1] thangka from Sera Monastery (private collection). ...

• Antony C. Sutton
• Carroll Quigley
• David Icke
• Erich von Däniken
• Zecharia Sitchin

Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... David Icke David Vaughan Icke (pronounced IKE //) (born April 29, 1952 in Leicester, England) is a British writer and public speaker who has devoted himself since 1990 to researching who and what is really controlling the world. ... Erich von Däniken Erich Anton Paul von Däniken (b. ... Zecharia Sitchins photograph from The 12th Planet Zecharia Sitchin (born 1922)[1] is a best-selling author of books promoting the ancient astronaut theory for human origins. ...

Links

• Meta History
• Meta Religion
• Ramtha A Master's Reflection on History of Humanity, Part I & II
• Today in Alternate History, a daily-updated blog, featuring "Important Events In History That Never Occurred Today" in several recurring timelines.