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The Ifs of History
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| Name: | The Ifs of History |
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| Creator: | Joseph Edgar Chamberlin |
| Date(s): | 1905 |
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| Country of Origin: | U.S. |
| External Links: | Archive.org |
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The Ifs of History is one of the early works in Alternate History Fandom. It is published by Joseph Edgar Chamberlin in 1905.
Story of The Ifs of History
The Ifs of History have 22 Essays about Alternate History
| I | If Themistocles Had Not Beaten Aristides in an Athenian Election | 13 |
| II. | If the Moors Had Won the Battle of Tours | 21 |
| III. | If King Ethelred of England Had Not Married the Norman Emma | 30 |
| IV. | If Columbus Had Kept His Straight Course Westward | 37 |
| V. | If Queen Elizabeth Had Left a Son or Daughter | 47 |
| VI. | If the Philarmonia Had Not Given Concerts at Vicenza | 56 |
| VII. | If the Spanish Armada Had Sailed at Its Appointed Time | 64 |
| VIII. | If Champlain Had Tarried in Plymouth Bay | 71 |
| IX. | If Charles II Had Accepted the Kingship of Virginia | 79 |
| X. | If Admiral Penn Had Persisted in Disowning His Son William | 91 |
| XI. | If the Boy George Washington Had Become a British Midshipman | 99 |
| XII. | If Alexander Hamilton Had Not Written About the Hurricane | 107 |
| XIII. | If Lafayette Had Held the French Reign of Terror in Check | 114 |
| XIV. | If Gilbert Livingston Had Not Voted New York into the Union | 121 |
| XV. | If the Pirate Jean Lafitte Had Joined the British at New Orleans | 129 |
| XVI. | If James Macdonnel Had Not Closed the Gates of Hugomont Castle | 138 |
| XVII. | If Abraham Lincoln's Father Had Moved Southward, Not Northward | 150 |
| XVIII. | If Skipper Jennings Had Not Rescued Certain Shipwrecked Japanese | 160 |
| XIX. | If Orsini's Bomb Had Not Failed to Destroy Napoleon III | 170 |
| XX. | If President James Buchanan Had Enforced the Law in November, 1860 | 176 |
| XXI. | If the Confederates Had Marched on Washington After Bull Run | 185 |
| XXII. | If the Confederate States Had Purchased the East India Company's Fleet in 1861 |