A series of short vignettes that speculate on what how history would have changed in response to a small change in an event. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle
Chapters (22)
1If Themistocles Had Not Beaten Aristides in an Athenian Election
415
2If the Moors Had Won the Battle of Tours
545
3If King Ethelred of England Had Not Married the Norman Emma
372
4If Columbus Had Kept His Straight Course Westward
528
5If Queen Elizabeth Had Left a Son or Daughter
451
6If the Philarmonia Had Not Given Concerts at Vicenza
491
7If the Spanish Armada Had Sailed at Its Appointed Time
353
8If Champlain Had Tarried in Plymouth Bay
502
9If Charles II Had Accepted the Kingship of Virginia
575
10If Admiral Penn Had Persisted in Disowning His Son William
557
11If the Boy George Washington Had Become a British Midshipman
468
12If Alexander Hamilton Had Not Written About the Hurricane
361
13If Lafayette Had Held the French Reign of Terror in Check
448
14If Gilbert Livingston Had Not Voted New York into the Union
480
15If the Pirate Jean Lafitte Had Joined the British at New Orleans
621
16If James Macdonnel Had Not Closed the Gates of Hugomont Castle
632
17If Abraham Lincoln's Father Had Moved Southward, Not Northward
586
18If Skipper Jennings Had Not Rescued Certain Shipwrecked Japanese
544
19If Orsini's Bomb Had Not Failed to Destroy Napoleon III
307
20If President James Buchanan Had Enforced the Law in November, 1860
455
21If the Confederates Had Marched on Washington After Bull Run
509
22If the Confederate States Had Purchased the East India Company's Fleet in 1861
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