Dive into the world of alternate history, exploring 17 fascinating and imaginative fictional countries that could have ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne of The Scarlet Letter fame wrote the first alternate history short story in 1845. Hawthorne wrote his short story — P.’s Correspondence — as if it was penned by a madman ...

Samuel Arbesman explores the detail and delights of maps that plot alternative worlds ... yet arises from an entirely parallel history to our own: Imagining global democracy if the Nazis were ...

“Empire of Cotton” proves Sven Beckert one of the new elite of genuinely global historians. Too little present-day academic history is written for the general public.

Alternative History: Germany Declares Victory in 1918 by Michael Peck Key Point: Despite ambitions of becoming a global colonial empire, Germany was still a Continental power in 1914.

Guest blogger Kim Newman is the author of Anno Dracula, an alternate-history novel in which the famed bloodsucker defeats vampire hunter Van Helsing. The 1992 best-seller gets an upgrade Tuesday ...

In particular, we need to confront the incomplete, self-serving history that underpins it. That “history” looks a lot like a genre of speculative fiction called “alternate history” that ...

British historian Roger Crowley specializes in an era mostly forgotten by Westerners: the epic maritime struggle between the Christian West and the Muslim Middle East in the 1400s and 1500s.

The way the U.S. global empire developed to be the most powerful empire in history is encapsulated in the first three presidents of the 20 th century, William Appleman Williams wrote in his final ...

Alternate history writing looks at "what if" scenarios; What if the Soviet Union won the Cold War? What if the Roman Empire never fell? It's not just interesting escapism; it also allows readers ...