Alternative history may refer to:

• Alternate history
• Counterfactual history
• Historical revisionism

Alternate history or alternative history is a subgenre of Speculative fiction (or Science fiction) and Historical fiction Counterfactual history, also sometimes referred to as virtual history, is a recent form of Historiography which attempts to answer "what if" questions For the denial and distortion of well-established historical facts see Historical revisionism (negationism.

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