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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 ...
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.
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 ...
In an alternative history, Africa became a unified empire and invaded, occupied and colonised Europe instead of Europe colonising Africa. At the time of the series, slavery had been abolished for some time, but segregation, similar to the Jim Crow Laws , continues to operate to keep the "Crosses" (dark-skinned people) in control of the "noughts ...
Since role-playing games originally developed from wargames, there are many historical and alternate-history RPGs based on Earth. The settings for such games are excluded from this list, unless they include significant fictional elements. Many RPG campaign settings are based on fictional universes from books, comics, video games, or films.
I was recently out to dinner with a few girlfriends when one brought up this great conversation starter: “What's your *forever age*?” The unassuming question asks you to consider a lot more ...
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 ...
In the alternate history novel Russian Amerika by Stoney Compton, has 20th-century North America made up of several independent sovereign nations. The point of divergence is that the United States lost the Civil War with the Confederacy; and as a post-war consequence, the Union loses all ground west of the Mississippi River as American-claimed ...