alternative history

Why Is There Alternate History?

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Why Is There Alternate History? Alternative histories provide an intriguing window on the ways in which particular peoples understand their pasts, for the genre’s practitioners often reimagine events and turning points that are central to national mythologies. What is the purpose of alternate history? Alternative histories provide an intriguing window on the ways in which

What Is Altered History?

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What Is Altered History? Alternate history, alternative history (in Commonwealth English), or simply althist, sometimes abbreviated as AH, is a genre of speculative fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently. The stories are conjectural but are sometimes based on fact. Why do authors alter history? In today’s culture, it