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List of alternate histories diverging at the American Civil War is a compilation of alternate history fiction whose point of divergence is the American Civil War.These Civil War alternate histories typically focus on a Confederate victory but others focus on scenarios such as a Civil War being averted, British intervention in the conflict, a Union victory occurring under different ...
The novel attracted praise for exploring racism through the alternate-history mechanism. In Hallie Marshall: A True Daughter of the South (1900) by Frank Williams, the earliest known Civil War alternate history, the Confederacy won by mobilizing black slaves to its army, their participation turning the tide at Gettysburg. Thirty years later ...
Dixie, subtitled "The Second War Between the States", is a board wargame designed by Redmond A. Simonsen and published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates an alternate world where the Union lost the first American Civil War, and there is a second war between the North and the South in the early part of the 20th century.
Student quiz shows have appeared on television as both local and national programs since the second half of the 20th century. The following is a list of quiz programs that have aired on local or national television, featuring teams from schools, colleges, or universities in academic competition.
Series featuring a continuum of parallel worlds policed by the Imperium, formed in an alternate history where the American Revolution did not occur, and the British Empire and Germany merged into a unified empire in 1900, with a government based in an alternate Stockholm. American diplomat Brion Bayard is the protagonist, having been kidnapped ...
Alternate history television series, a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history. As conjecture based upon historical fact, alternate history stories propose What if? scenarios about crucial events in human history , and present outcomes very ...
Formerly The Dixie Chicks, Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Robinson were at the top of their game in the early 2000s, having sold more than 25 million records since their debut album ...
A review of the program's initial episode in The New York Times described it as "a spirited and intelligent quiz show". [4] Reviewer Jack Gould commended host Brown and the members of the panel: Millicent Fenwick of Vogue magazine, publisher Bennett Cerf, book critic Lewis Gannett, and 11-year-old Lind Nissen. Gould found what he called "minor ...