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Alternate Presidents is an alternate history anthology edited by Mike Resnick, ... After the outbreak of the American Civil War later that year, Douglas grows fearful ...
Britain enters the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy, turning the war into an unending stalemate. In Underground Airlines, by Ben H. Winters (2016). President-elect Lincoln is assassinated in 1861, and a version of the Crittenden Compromise is adopted preventing the Civil War from
"Alternate Presidents", published February 1992, [37] contains four stories with wildly differing hypothetical US Civil War scenarios: "Chickasaw Slave" by Judith Moffett, "How the South Preserved the Union" by Ralph Roberts, "Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night" by Jack L. Chalker, and "Lincoln's Charge" by Bill Fawcett. In Roberts' and Chalker's ...
American Civil War alternate histories are texts wherein events during the American Civil War occurred differently to those in history. The most common variant of these detail the victory and survival of the Confederate States of America .
In the late 1880s, a science fiction dime novel was published which portrayed an alternate history in which Lincoln became president, the Civil War did not begin until 1861 and it was the slaveholding South rather than the North which seceded from the Union and formed the Confederacy. However, the novel was largely dismissed as the idea of ...
It is not made clear what effect the rapid expansion of the Republic of Texas in the 1860s had on the Civil War and the prospects of victory for the Confederate States of America. In an alternate timeline featured in Fantastic Four, Bush died of pneumonia while in office and was succeeded by Oliver North, who became the 42nd President.
In the short story "The War of '07" by Jayge Carr in the anthology Alternate Presidents edited by Mike Resnick, Thomas Jefferson lost the 1800 election to Aaron Burr, who became the 3rd President. President Burr kept promising to stand down after one more term but was ultimately elected to a total of nine terms from 1800 to 1832. He died on ...
Barry Sadler is elected president in 1984 in Mitchell J. Freedman's novel A Disturbance of Fate.A Republican, Sadler's pursuit of conservative policies triggers a second civil war that, after much destruction, results in his arrest and the drafting of a new Constitution in which the office of the presidency is abolished.