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Turning Points - Actual and Alternate Histories: Manifest Destiny and the Expansion of America
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More Actual and Alternate Histories: Manifest Destiny and the Expansion of America The question, What would have happened if . . . ? is asked all the time as historians, students, and readers of history examine past events. If some event had turned out differently, we are often reminded that the whole course of history from that particular turning point forward could have been affected. Important outcomes frequently hinge on an individ-ual decision, an accidental encounter, a turn in the weather, the spread of a disease, or a missed piece of information. Such events stimulate our imagination, accentuating the role of luck, chance, and individual decision or character at particular moments in time. The examination of such key hinge points is one of the reasons that the study of history is so fascinating. ¡°Alternate history¡± has become a fictional genre, similar to science fiction, in that it proposes other worlds, spun off from the one we live in, derived from some key hinge point in the past. Harry Turtledove, among others, has produced novels along these lines. Turtledove has written a widely sold sequence of books that follow an alternate past from a ¡°counterfactual¡± Confederate victory at the battle of Antietam, resulting in the rise of the Confederate States of America as a separate nation, with consequences well into the twentieth century.
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