Fringe Theory - Fringe History

Fringe History

As with fringe science, fringe history can range from non-mainstream but serious historical work supported by a minority of historians, to pseudohistory, a pejorative term applied to a type of historical revisionism, often involving sensational claims whose acceptance would require rewriting a significant amount of commonly accepted history, and based on methods that depart from standard historiographical conventions.

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