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Historical Revisionism Is Rampant In Our Culture - Several editorial essays from the Montgomery County News concerning the revision of history to fit in with what todays' society "wants to hear".
The Nubians and Olmecs - Article by Clyde Winters supporting an African presence in PreColumbian America.
Martin Bernal's "Black Athena" by Mark Alford - Discusses Bernal's views on African influences on the Grecian and Egyptian cultures.
Afrocentricity as a Quest for Cultural Unity: Reading Diop in English - Dr. Greg Moses presented this paper at the National Association for African American Studies in 1995. In it he argues that Afrocentricity is not a provocation of traditional history, but is a balance and a complement to it.
Revision of History in Postwar Japanese Textbooks - This study is a content analysis of history textbooks used in Japanese high schools in the postwar era.
Decipherment of the Olmec Writing System - Paper presented at the 1997 Central States Anthropological Society Meeting, treating Olmec as a West African language.
Maya, Aztec, Inca Lords of the Earth - Variety of explanations claiming that Native Americans had a "universal language" and had contact with China, Egypt, and other world cultures.
Ancient Cultures - History of Ancient Cultures and Civilizations, events that shaped history, ancient sites. Alternate viewpoints on History.
Prince Madoc and the Mandans - Site by an amateur historian tells the legend of Welsh prince Madoc colonizing the New World, and suggests that the reason the Mandan Indians were intelligent enough to build mounds is because they were descended from white people.
Plain Talk on the Genetic Issue - Essay by a white hobbyist arguing that the Narragansett and other American Indians are the descendants of recent Viking settlers.

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Historical revisionism (negationism) - Historical revisionism is the attempt to change commonly held ideas about the past. In its legitimate form (see historical revisionism) it is the reexamination of historical facts, with an eye towards updating historical narratives with newly discovered, more accurate, or less biased information, acknowledging that history of an event, ...
Historical revisionism - Historical revisionism has both a legitimate academic use and a pejorative meaning.
Historical anomalies in Blackadder - The British sitcom, Blackadder, takes place in several historical eras. Although many historical figures are seen or mentioned in the series, this is not necessarily done in a strictly historically accurate manner.
Historical revision of the Inquisition - Historical revision of the Inquisition is a historiographical project that has emerged in recent years. In the last forty years, with opening of formerly closed archives, the development of new historical methodologies, and, in Spain, the death of Francisco Franco in 1975, new works of historical revisionism have reread the history of the Roman and Spanish Inquisitions.
Barnes Review - The Barnes Review is a magazine founded by Willis Carto, dedicated to historical revisionism such as Holocaust denial. Willis Carto had earlier founded the Institute for Historical Review in 1979 but lost control of that organization in an internal takeover by former associates.