This Day in Alternate History

The Anglo-French portion of the Six Years' War had dragged on through mixed results. Early on, the French had the upper hand with a str...

Upon the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, many Catholics saw the time of transition when Scottish James I took the English throne as the ch...

Beginning in the 600s, the Middle East was a theater of war for three of history’s greatest empires. Two of them, the Byzantine and the Sas...

In a move that many who knew him considered shockingly uncharacteristic (and believed to have been caused by advisers warning against words ...

After not even two weeks of being General-in-Chief of the Union Armies, General George B. McClellan was dismissed from his position after re...

In the midst of trench fever, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, signals officer with the Lancashire Fusiliers, began hallucinations that would fore...

In the beginning of the darkest hours of the Second World War, the ill-fated 1942 invasion of the European mainland began on a sunny, mild d...