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  2. Pseudohistory - Wikipedia

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    Pseudohistory is purported history which: Treats myths, legends, sagas and similar literature as literal truth; Is neither critical nor skeptical in its reading of ancient historians, taking their claims at face value and ignoring empirical or logical evidence contrary to the claims of the ancients

  3. List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    The myth that Columbus proved the Earth was round was propagated by authors like Washington Irving in A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. [322] Columbus was not the first European to visit the Americas: [326] Leif Erikson, and possibly other Vikings before him, explored Vinland, an area of coastal North America.

  4. List of common misconceptions about the Middle Ages

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    The Middle Ages is a traditional division of Western European history that roughly lasted from the 5th to the 15th centuries. After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, civilization in different parts of Western Europe receded at different rates and at different times.

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  6. The Power of a False 'Lost Cause' Christmas Myth - AOL

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    To bolster their authority, white southern men and women churned out a flood of publications—memoirs of pre-Civil War experiences, history books and articles, novels, short stories, poems, and ...

  7. Myth - Wikipedia

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    Myth criticism, a discipline that studies myths (mythology contains them, like a pantheon its statues), is by nature interdisciplinary: it combines the contributions of literary theory, the history of literature, the fine arts and the new ways of dissemination in the age of communication.

  8. Historical negationism - Wikipedia

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    Historical negationism, [1] [2] also called historical denialism, is falsification [3] [4] or distortion of the historical record. This is not the same as historical revisionism , a broader term that extends to newly evidenced, fairly reasoned academic reinterpretations of history. [ 5 ]

  9. Phantom time conspiracy theory - Wikipedia

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    Illig continued to publish on the "phantom time hypothesis" until at least 2013. Also in 2013, he published on an unrelated topic of art history, on German Renaissance master Anton Pilgram, but again proposing revisions to conventional chronology, and arguing for the abolition of the art historical category of Mannerism. [10]