This Day in Alternate History

Having lasted over six months since April, the third modern Olympic Games would be the longest ever held. It was packed with memorable ...

One week after his own death, Thomas Edison proved himself once more to be an incredible inventor. Using a device he had worked on in s...

On October 2, 1780, British Army officer Major John André was due to be hanged as a spy at Tappan, New York. In the morning, André was ...

Although growing up in rural Russian Empire and suffering partial deafness due to scarlet fever at age ten, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky woul...

Although he was known as William Jefferson Clinton for several years as a young man, as a famed member of the music industry, he would ...

  This post first appeared on Today in Alternate History . As a result of the treaty, King Charles faced a new crisis: the claims of S...