Ifs of History
Joseph Edgar Chamberlin
23 chapters · 3 h 4 min · English
Read by Stacey Malcolm, AJMcKinse, Ted Perkins, Arnav Darnal, Piotr Nater, jenno and others
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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
Chapters
1 Preface 4 min 2 If Themistocles Had Not Beaten Aristides in an Athenian Election 7 min 3 If the Moors Had Won the Battle of Tours 9 min 4 If King Ethelred of England Had Not Married the Norman Emma 6 min 5 If Columbus Had Kept His Straight Course Westward 9 min 6 If Queen Elizabeth Had Left a Son or Daughter 8 min 7 If the Philarmonia Had Not Given Concerts at Vicenza 8 min 8 If the Spanish Armada Had Sailed at Its Appointed Time 6 min 9 If Champlain Had Tarried in Plymouth Bay 8 min 10 If Charles II Had Accepted the Kingship of Virginia 10 min 11 If Admiral Penn Had Persisted in Disowning His Son William 9 min 12 If the Boy George Washington Had Become a British Midshipman 8 min 13 If Alexander Hamilton Had Not Written About the Hurricane 6 min 14 If Lafayette Had Held the French Reign of Terror in Check 7 min 15 If Gilbert Livingston Had Not Voted New York into the Union 8 min 16 If the Pirate Jean Lafitte Had Joined the British at New Orleans 10 min 17 If James Macdonnel Had Not Closed the Gates of Hugomont Castle 11 min 18 If Abraham Lincoln's Father Had Moved Southward, Not Northward 10 min 19 If Skipper Jennings Had Not Rescued Certain Shipwrecked Japanese 9 min 20 If Orsini's Bomb Had Not Failed to Destroy Napoleon III 5 min 21 If President James Buchanan Had Enforced the Law in November, 1860 8 min 22 If the Confederates Had Marched on Washington After Bull Run 8 min 23 If the Confederate States Had Purchased the East India Company's Fleet in 1861 11 min
