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A story set in a modern CSA, in which a history professor in the South writes an alternate history in which the North was victorious. "Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster. An alternate history in which the South won the American Civil War is briefly touched on, but is not the main focus of the story. Published in 1934. [4] "1862" by Robert ...
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 ...
This series was set in Joseon era of Korea and made extensive use of alternate history. In this alternate world, Joseon is besieged by the Fallen Angel "Azazel" from the Vatican religion. The King of Joseon called for a Vatican priest to help defeat Azazel through exorcism, and stop his demons from possessing people through a physical disease.
The book is written in the manner of a history text published in the alternate reality of 1961 and describing the developments of the past century, in which the Confederate States of America had existed as a separate nation-state. It includes numerous footnotes and quotations from various (fictional) historical writings.
Counterfactual history seeks by "conjecturing on what did not happen, or what might have happened, in order to understand what did happen." [2] It has produced a literary genre which is variously called alternate history, speculative history, allohistory, and hypothetical history. [3] [4]
The Dixie Chicks Ron Wolfson/Getty Images The Chicks sent shockwaves through the entertainment industry when they publicly took a stand against George Bush — and changed the course of country ...
A painting by Jakub Różalski depicts an alternate history of the 1920s, in which rural peasants must contend with giant mechanical walking tanks.. Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, [1] althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.