pseudohistory
Sign in to saveAlso known as pseudo-history, distorianism, alternate historical chronology
thumb|Sonderaktion 1005 was a Nazi project with the explicit goal of hiding or destroying any evidence of the [[mass murder committed under Operation Reinhard. This was one of the earliest attempts at Holocaust denial, taking place while the genocide of the Jews was still ongoing. Scholars consider denial to be an integral part of genocide itself.]] thumb|The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is a negationist ideology which falsely claims that the spread of slavery was not the central cause of the [[American Civil War.]] thumb|The Iğdır Genocide Memorial and Museum in [[Turkey promotes the false n
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, pseudohistory is referenced by 870 other articles, and connects out to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories and Q1190688.
It is catalogued under topics including Barriers to critical thinking, Fiction and Fringe theory.
Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
Show 1 more fact
- Commons category
- Pseudohistory
via Wikidata · CC0
~26 min read
Encyclopedic overview
25 sectionsContents
- Definition and etymology
- Characteristics
- Categories and examples
- Main categories
- Alternative chronologies
- Historical falsification
- Historical revisionism
- Historical negationism
- Psychohistory
- Pseudoarchaeology
- Various examples of pseudohistory
- Ancient aliens, ancient technologies, and lost lands
- Antisemitic pseudohistory
- Ethnocentric or nationalist revisionism
- Matriarchy
- Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories
- Racist pseudohistory
- Stalinist pseudohistory
- Anti-religious pseudohistory
- Religious pseudohistory
- As a topic of study
- See also
- References
- Works cited
- External links
thumb|Sonderaktion 1005 was a Nazi project with the explicit goal of hiding or destroying any evidence of the [[mass murder committed under Operation Reinhard. This was one of the earliest attempts at Holocaust denial, taking place while the genocide of the Jews was still ongoing. Scholars consider denial to be an integral part of genocide itself.]] thumb|The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is a negationist ideology which falsely claims that the spread of slavery was not the central cause of the [[American Civil War.]] thumb|The Iğdır Genocide Memorial and Museum in [[Turkey promotes the false narrative that Armenians committed genocide against Turks, rather than vice versa.]]
Pseudohistory is a form of pseudoscholarship that attempts to distort or misrepresent the historical record, often by employing methods resembling those used in scholarly historical research. The related term cryptohistory is applied to pseudohistory derived from the superstitions intrinsic to occultism. Pseudohistory is related to pseudoscience and pseudoarchaeology, and usage of the terms may occasionally overlap.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pseudohistory” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.