“The Plot Against America” on HBO is the latest production to reimagine the past. These alternative histories tell us both what could have been — and what might be.

DeSantis' alternative African-American history is doomed: Black conservatives can't replace CRT The AP changed its course after Florida's GOP governor complained it lacked balance. But what is the ...

Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America has been adapted into an HBO drama. It imagines the anti-Semitic hero Charles Lindbergh winning the United States presidency in 1940.

The Anti-Masons were the first recognized third party. It was formed in 1828 in opposition to the Freemasons, a secret ...

Unfortunately, Columbus’ discovery of America similarly dooms our own timeline, so another group of time travelers is again sent back to alter the political structure of the Europe’s first ...

Whereas the first game took place in a theoretical future, “Homefront: The Revolution” follows an alternate history that branches off during the Korean War.

Packer also revealed historians have been brought in as consultants on the project, working with producers. This isn’t the first time Amazon has tried out an alternate history series.

To be alive in America right now is to be acutely aware of the paths not taken—to live, essentially, in the Sliding Doors proposition, and in the paradigm of the alternate history.

Right. Generally, in alternative stories you try to rethink events without knowing the outcome first. This puts us in the mind frame of how history happened to people then.

When Philip Roth published The Plot Against America in 2004 — an alternate history where pilot Charles Lindbergh is elected president in 1940 on an antiwar and barely veiled anti-Semitic ...