antihistory

anti- +‎ history

antihistory (countable and uncountable, plural antihistories)

1. (uncountable) Spurious history.
   • 2011, Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Israel, page 213:

     Instead, there was the fraudulent manufacturing of false antihistory. It was the kind of deception for which professors are rightly fired […]

   • 2011, Robert C. Williams, The Historian's Toolbox, →ISBN, page 31:

     The most notorious example of antihistory is historical denial. Historical denial asserts that a well-known event never really happened or that a well-known person never existed.

2. (countable) A false or fictional narrative describing past events which did not actually occur.
   • 1975, Peter Hanns Reill, The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism, →ISBN, page 69:

     Rousseau's antihistories paid homage to a time that might have been.

   • 2001, John Kadvany, Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason, →ISBN, page 316:

     [W]e are constantly subject to the danger of creating foundations for the antiethics of Stalinism, the antiscience of Lysenko genetics, and the antihistories of Muscovite historians.

• alternate history
• antihistoricism
• pseudohistory