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2026
What if the American Revolution Had Failed? (Updated to include Curtis Yarvin's 2008 counterfactual fantasy)original ↗
4 Jul 2026
Sneak Preview of Predicting the Past: Counterfactual History from Antiquity to the Presentoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2026
2024
6 May 2024
25 Jan 2024
2023
Keeping the Nazis from Winning World War II (Again): Counterfactuals in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny"original ↗
12 Jul 2023
New Jewish Counterfactuals: On Andrea D. Lobel's and Mark Shainblum’s anthology, "Other Covenants"original ↗
7 Mar 2023
2022
24 Dec 2022
11 Dec 2022
New Book Review: Quentin Deluermoz and Pierre Singaravélou, A Past of Possibilities: A History of What Could Have Been.original ↗
5 Sept 2022
Authoritarian Speculation: How Counterfactuals Have Shaped Vladimir Putin’s Historical Worldvieworiginal ↗
21 Apr 2022
On the Danger of Polemical Counterfactuals: Tom Cotton’s Scurrilous Nazi Allegation Against Ketanji Brown Jacksonoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2022
The Real Author Behind Randolph Robban's 1950 alternate history, Si l'Allemagne avait vaincu (If Germany Had Won).original ↗
23 Mar 2022
If the Concept of ‘Genocide’ had Existed in the 1930s, Hitler Would Have Used It to Justify the Quest for Lebensraumoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2022
A Counterfactual That Dares Not Speak Its Name: Zeynep Tufekci on Missed Opportunities and COVID-19original ↗
12 Mar 2022
From the Archives: A Confused Counterfactual about the American Revolution, “Suddenly an Eagle” (1976)original ↗
23 Feb 2022
2021
Ignoring Alternate History? Randy Boyagoda Reviews Laurent Binet's "Civilizations" as a work of "Counterfiction"original ↗
11 Dec 2021
Counterfactual Pots and Kettles: Woody Holton’s Disputed Claims about Lord Dunmore’s “Emancipation Proclamation” of 1775 and the American Revolution.original ↗
9 Sept 2021
14 Jul 2021
More "Close Call Counterfactuals" from the Sacking of the U. S. Capitol: John Podhoretz's Indictment of Donald Trumporiginal ↗
11 Feb 2021
Would the Founders Have Convicted Donald Trump? A Rip Van Winkle Counterfactual by Eli Merrittoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2021
Counterfactual Number-Crunching: Robert Reich on Missed Opportunities to Raise Workers' Wagesoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2021
26 Jan 2021
Donald Trump as a Situational Fascist: How Counterfactuals Reveal the Contingencies of Contemporary History.original ↗
15 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021
A Delusional Counterfactual: Ann Coulter’s Disappointed Fantasy about Donald Trump’s Missed Opportunitiesoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2021
2020
From the Archives: Bismarck's Prophecy and a "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet Counterfactual" by Charles Downer Hazenoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2020
15 Dec 2020
Donald Trump's Predecessor in Rejecting Election Results: King Umberto II of Italy and the Close Call of 1946original ↗
2 Dec 2020
Was George Wallace Nearly Donald Trump? A "Close Call" and/or "Missed Opportunity" Counterfactualoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2020
From the Archives: G. M. Trevelyan, Napoleon Bonaparte, and the First Ever (?) Alternate History Essay Contestoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2020
Reflections on Counterfactual Nazis: A Preview of "Fascism in American Culture, How Alternate a History?"original ↗
22 Nov 2020
17 Nov 2020
Biden or Bernie? The Democratic Party Would Have Lost the Election if Sanders Had Been the Nomineeoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2020
Counterfactual Sentence of the Day: From Joseph Edgar Chamberlin's Book, "The Ifs of History" (1907)original ↗
2 Nov 2020
When Is an "Alternate History" Not an Alternate History? Amazon's Forthcoming Series, "The Underground Railroad"original ↗
22 Oct 2020
16 Oct 2020
The Plot Against America: Webinar and Panel Discussion at the University of Florida (Preview and Video Link)original ↗
10 Sept 2020
Does Schopenhauer Help Explain Trump? Brian Stelter, Bob Woodward, and "Leopard Spot" Counterfactualsoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2020
2019
Who's Afraid of a Counterfactual? Roger Cohen, Apparently, in His New Essay on Yitzhak Rabinoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2019
Mis-Using the Terms, "Counterfactual History" and "Alternate History": “Cold Case Hammarskjold" and "The 1619 Project"original ↗
22 Aug 2019
16 Aug 2019
Forthcoming Study on the Holocaust in Alternate History: Glyn Morgan's "Imagining the Unimaginable."original ↗
15 Aug 2019
15 Aug 2019
15 Mar 2019
16 Jan 2019
A New German Study on Nazi Counterfactuals: Johannes Rhein, et al, eds., Schlechtes Gedächtnis"original ↗
10 Jan 2019
Advance Publicity for The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Presentoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2019
2018
The Ongoing Alternate History Onslaught: Philip Roth’s "The Plot Against America" to be an HBO Miniseriesoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2018
Sneak Preview of "The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present"original ↗
18 Oct 2018
16 Oct 2018
Guilt by Association: John Heilemann Dings Alternate History by Linking it to Newt Gingrichoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2018
"Another Architectural Counterfactual: What If the Chicago Fire of 1871 Had Never Happened?"original ↗
11 Oct 2018
With Friends Like These....Donald Trump's New Rip Van Winkle Counterfactual About George Washingtonoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2018
Interested in Discussing Counterfactuals and Nazis? Check Out Reddit's "Ask Me Anything" this Thursday Afternoon.original ↗
12 Jun 2018
And Now....Sports Counterfactuals! Mike Pesca's New Volume, "Upon Further Review: The Greatest What Ifs in Sports History"original ↗
31 May 2018
Counterfactual Communists? Netflix Announces Polish Alternate History Series Will Be Called "1983"original ↗
7 Mar 2018
2 Mar 2018
Negative Counterfactuals and Know-Nothings: Paul Krugman Reminds Us That Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonderoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2018
2017
"No Lenin, No Hitler?" Reflections on Simon Sebag Montefiore's Bolshevik Revolution Counterfactualoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2017
9 Nov 2017
3 Nov 2017