A series of short vignettes that speculate on what how history would have changed in response to a small change in an event. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle
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Episodes
Preface
Episode 0 · 3:34
If Themistocles Had Not Beaten Aristides in an Athenian Election
Episode 1 · 6:55
If the Moors Had Won the Battle of Tours
Episode 2 · 9:05
If King Ethelred of England Had Not Married the Norman Emma
Episode 3 · 6:12
If Columbus Had Kept His Straight Course Westward
Episode 4 · 8:48
If Queen Elizabeth Had Left a Son or Daughter
Episode 5 · 7:31
If the Philarmonia Had Not Given Concerts at Vicenza
Episode 6 · 8:11
If the Spanish Armada Had Sailed at Its Appointed Time
Episode 7 · 5:53
If Champlain Had Tarried in Plymouth Bay
Episode 8 · 8:22
If Charles II Had Accepted the Kingship of Virginia
Episode 9 · 9:35
If Admiral Penn Had Persisted in Disowning His Son William
Episode 10 · 9:17
If the Boy George Washington Had Become a British Midshipman
Episode 11 · 7:48
If Alexander Hamilton Had Not Written About the Hurricane
Episode 12 · 6:01
If Lafayette Had Held the French Reign of Terror in Check
Episode 13 · 7:28
If Gilbert Livingston Had Not Voted New York into the Union
Episode 14 · 8:00
If the Pirate Jean Lafitte Had Joined the British at New Orleans
Episode 15 · 10:21
If James Macdonnel Had Not Closed the Gates of Hugomont Castle
Episode 16 · 10:32
If Abraham Lincoln's Father Had Moved Southward, Not Northward
Episode 17 · 9:46
If Skipper Jennings Had Not Rescued Certain Shipwrecked Japanese
Episode 18 · 9:04
If Orsini's Bomb Had Not Failed to Destroy Napoleon III
Episode 19 · 5:07
If President James Buchanan Had Enforced the Law in November, 1860
Episode 20 · 7:35
If the Confederates Had Marched on Washington After Bull Run
Episode 21 · 8:29
If the Confederate States Had Purchased the East India Company's Fleet in 1861