Imagine a world in which this magazine never existed. In that version of existence ... been a very small exercise in what's called alternate history, or alt history, defined in its Wikipedia ...

Samuel Arbesman explores the detail and delights of maps that plot alternative ... in history? For example, in American history there have been numerous plans for states that never quite went ...

In the face of actual history, Scheidel creatively invents alternate histories that he calls counterfactuals. What if, he conjectures, Afroeurasia were spun on an axis so that China was just a few ...

To most people in this country, there's never been a bigger hero ... what would've happened if America chose differently? This alternative history's parallels with modern times are inescapable.

What if America was never a democracy but a monarchy? That's the premise of a new comic book series titled, America's Kingdom. In this alternate history/reality, it's modern day America but under ...