- history that is based on an unconventional or nontraditional interpretation of an event or events: Charting a hitherto untold story with historical and contemporary implications, these essays present a compelling alternative history of theatrical practice in the UK.
- alternate history: She writes alternative history that is detailed and hard to resist.The book is a supernatural alternative history.
- a genre of fiction in which the author speculates on how the course of history might have been altered if a particular historical event had had a different outcome
