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I thought they were already distinct.

Written by the winners is where the winner of a conflict decides who was righteous and who was not ini t. It's generally an in-universe thing too.

Historical X Upgrade is how fictionalized historical people are portrayed as a hero/bad guy well in excess of their historical action. The storyteller generally has no stake in the person's reputation and just does it for dramatic/laziness purposes. Abraham Lincoln being full on MLK equality speeches and Jefferson Davis holding mass executions of blacks by tying them to railroad tracks would be examples of HHU and HVU.

Politically-Correct History is how a work of fiction doesn't bother showing intolerance of the past. A story set in the Hundred Years War where nobody cares the group consists of a homosexual, a black guy, an unwed teenage mother and a jew is Politically-Correct History.