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 ...

Such maps can also help us see the past and present with fresh eyes. For example, any alternate history is not simply a point of divergence, followed by seat-of-the-pants conjecture.

“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.

Europe was pagan until the Romans brought Catholicism to the empire in the 4th century. You don’t have to look that far back into history, though, to find an example.

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.

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 ...