Editing Pseudohistory (section)

==== Racist pseudohistory ====
[[Josiah Priest]] and other nineteenth-century American writers wrote pseudohistorical narratives that portrayed [[African Americans]] and [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] in an extremely negative light.<ref name=Williams>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Stephen|title=Fantastic Archaeology: The Wild Side of North American Prehistory|url=https://archive.org/details/fantasticarchaeo00will|url-access=registration|location=Philadelphia|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|date=1991}}</ref> Priest's first book was ''The Wonders of Nature and Providence, Displayed'' (1826).<ref>{{cite book|first=Josiah|last=Priest|title=The Wonders of Nature, and Providence Displayed|publisher=E & E Hosford|location=Albany|year=1826|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJsRAAAAIAAJ}}</ref><ref name=Williams/> The book is regarded by modern critics as one of the earliest works of modern American pseudohistory.<ref name=Williams/> Priest attacked Native Americans in ''American Antiquities and Discoveries of the West'' (1833)<ref>{{cite book|first=Josiah|last=Priest|title=American Antiquities and Discoveries in the West |publisher=Hoffman and White|location=Albany|year=1835|url=https://archive.org/details/americanantiqui05priegoog}}</ref><ref name=Williams/> and African-Americans in ''Slavery, As It Relates to the Negro'' (1843).<ref>{{cite book|first=Josiah|last=Priest|title=Slavery, As It Relates to the Negro|publisher=C. van Bethuysen & Co|location=Albany|year=1843|url=https://archive.org/stream/slaveryasitrela00priegoog#page/n7/mode/1up}}</ref><ref name=Williams/> Other nineteenth-century writers, such as [[Thomas Gold Appleton]], in his ''A Sheaf of Papers'' (1875), and [[George Perkins Marsh]], in his ''The Goths in New England'', seized upon false notions of [[Vikings|Viking]] history to promote the superiority of [[white people]] (as well as to oppose the [[Catholic Church]]). Such misuse of Viking history and imagery reemerged in the twentieth century among some groups promoting [[white supremacy]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Regal |first=Brian |date=2019 |title=Everything Means Something in Viking |magazine=[[Skeptical Inquirer]] |publisher=[[Center for Inquiry]] |volume=43 |issue=6 |pages=44–47}}</ref>