Pseudohistory - Definition and Overview

Pseudohistory is the historical equivalent of pseudoscience. Pseudohistory typically blends together real history with myths and legends, without any attempt at criticism or fact checking. Pseudohistory often serves a political, nationalist or religious agenda.

The following have all been described as pseudohistory: Afrocentrism, creationism, and the works of Erich von Däniken and Immanuel Velikovsky, and the mythology of most religions.

See also:

• Deep England
• List of dubious historical resources
• Historical myths
• Olaus Rudbeckius (1630-1702), author of Atlantica, in which he tries to prove that Scandinavia is really identical to the mythical Atlantis.
• Holocaust denial (also called Holocaust revisionism)
• Celtomania
• Pseudoarchaeology
• New Chronology
• National mysticism
• Epsilon Team (an ultra-nationalistic exagerration of Greek History mixed with conspiracy theories)
• Nazism, Aryan race etc
• Anti-Catholicism, Black Legend
• Greater Serbia