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	Encyclopedia: Alternative history (fiction)
		In the English language, the first known complete alternate history is Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "P.'s Correspondence", published in 1846 and which recounts the tale of an apparent madman and his purported encounters with various literary and political figures of the 1840s.
		Beam Piper and Andre Norton wrote alternative history stories and novels, usually in a "cross-time"/"many universes" variant in which all alternative histories are co-existent in a multiverse and travel among them is possible.
		Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alternative-history-(fiction) (11258 words)

	soc.history.what-if FAQ (April 2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Alternative history fiction, on the other hand, requires that the world described be visibly the same as ours up to some specific point in history, after which things begin to get different.
		The distinction between alternative histories that are explorations of "what might have been", and those that utilise devices from science fiction and fantasy is one that has caused tension on SHWI in the past.
		The other Usenet newsgroups with some level of official interest in alternative history are alt.tv.sliders (about the alternative-worlds TV show), rec.arts.sf.written (the correct venue for discussion of the plot, characters, or literary merit of most published alternative histories), and the specialty group alt.books.harry-turtledove.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/history/what-if (5657 words)

	Alternative history (fiction) - SciFi/Fantasy Wiki
		Alternative history or alternate history is fiction that is set in a world in which history has diverged from history as it is generally known.
		For a variety of reasons, alternate history is generally classified as a subcategory of science fiction.
		The earliest alternative history published as a complete work, rather than an aside or digression in a longer work, is believed to be Louis Napoléon Geoffroy-Château’s French nationalist tale, Napoléon et la conquête du monde, 1812-1823 (1836).
	www.infoshop.org /sf/index.php/Alternative_history_(fiction) (2602 words)

	Talk: Alternative history (fiction) - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Turtledove looks interesting (+wishlist), but it's not Alternate History, it's common SF placed in the future, while Alternate History may or may not be placed in the past.
		The alternatives are the good civilisation of Jonbar or the bad one of Gyronchi, and the pivotal event is whether a child called John Barr picks up an old magnet, or a pebble.
		Taste, because through common (and long) usage, the incorrect (grammatically) form of alternate history is accepted as a marketing tool and the name of the genre which Chameleon disagrees with.
	talk.open-encyclopedia.com /Alternate_history (1419 words)

	Alternate History: Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Alternate history, in its most simple form, is the exposition of a fictional past.
		According to Uchronia, other names that can be associated with alternate history include alternative histories, allohistories, counterfactuals, counterfeit worlds, if worlds, negative histories, and uchronias.
		Alternative history occupies a special place in fiction in that it attempts to be both history and conjecture.
	www.corneria.org /alternate (381 words)

	Mothering: The history of alternative education
		In a more specific sense, however, the term alternative refers to a smaller, more radical group of critics: parents and educators who are uncomfortable with the materialistic, competitive, nationalistic, and individualistic industrial-age values that permeate public education.
		Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution early in the 19th century, alternative educators have established a variety of schools that are vastly different, in goals and structure, from the typical public institution.
		The History of alternative education is filled with a colorful assortment of idealistic, rebellious, and sometimes eccentric figures.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0838/is_n50/ai_6976690 (1241 words)

	Uchronia: The Alternate History List
		Also, the term "alternative history" may be used in non-fiction to describe a work which provides a different interpretation (or "spin") of actual events than is commonly understood.
		The topic of alternate history is also frequently addressed in wargames and wargaming magazines, although in those media it's usually left to the reader/player to determine what happens after the "point of divergence".
		Also akin to alternate histories are what are sometimes called "personal alternate histories", stories in which fictional characters get a chance to see how their lives might otherwise have occurred.
	www.uchronia.net /intro.html (2289 words)

	Alternative history - SmartyBrain Encyclopedia and Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Support for the history is generally undocumented or poorly documented.
		Belief in such histories are often based in belief of a conspiracy theory to explain its lack of documentation.
		A History told from an alternative viewpoint, such as a indigenous people rather then a explorer of them.
	smartybrain.com /index.php/Alternative_history (215 words)

	Alternative History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		History is not an absolute, but cause and effect: Change the cause and you alter the effect.
		History will always guess at how many troops General Van Dorn brought with him, but generations yet unborn, would no doubt tell his story.
		History would later record the Battle of Shiloh Church, as the turning point in the War for Confederate Independence.
	www.theconfederatealliance.com /photo4.html (4753 words)

	Alternative history -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A (A record or narrative description of past events) history told from an alternative viewpoint, rather than from the view of imperialist, conqueror, or explorer.
		The academic extrapolation of alternate outcomes of historical events: see (Click link for more info and facts about virtual history) virtual history (also known as counterfactual history).
		Such histories may tend to explain away their lack of scholarship or documentation on a (A plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)) conspiracy to erase such evidence.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alternative_history.htm (180 words)

	Articles - Alternative history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Alternative history or alternate history usually denotes a history told from an alternative viewpoint, rather than from the view of imperialist, conqueror, or explorer.
		Failed history covers events that have been predicted and had items created in the expectation of them occurring, but which then in fact did not occur.
		A genre of speculative fiction is fictious alternative history is fiction that is set in a world in which history has diverged from history as it is generally known.
	gaple.com /articles/Alternate_history?mySession=e1d7d1e587df72bd6c8e... (366 words)

	ipedia.com: Alternative history (fiction) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For All Time ('Chet Arthur') is a dystopian post-WWII scenario resulting from the death of Franklin Roosevelt shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, featuring horrific race riots in the United States between white, fl and Jewish gangs, and frequent usage of nuclear weapons around the world.
		Alternate History Discussion is a moderated forum devoted to discussing alternative history
		The Sidewise Award for Alternate History lists all the winners and nominees for the award since its inception and provides information for recommending works for consideration.
	www.ipedia.com /alternative_history__fiction_.html (2666 words)

	Sci-fi in Islam: Alternative History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This section contains alternative history stories and novels where the setting is Islamic, Muslims are main or even minor characters or in some cases sources wherever Islam or Muslims arer mentioned in this particular sci-fi genre.
		The alternate history is the long and enlightened history of kingdom from 1491 to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
		In this alternative histroy the bubonic plague kills 99% of the population in Europe, leaving the Islamic world and China as contest over the control of the world with India caught in the Middle.
	www.cs.rit.edu /~maa2454/SCIFI/alt_history.html (1948 words)

	History of Alternative Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Its use has allowed for telecommunications advances which have precipitated a new era in modern alternative media, as now networking is possible on a virtually limitless scale.
		As for alternative media outlets on the Net, they come in an array of varieties.
		Many alternative publications are now on the Net as well as in standard print.
	academic.evergreen.edu /e/espindoa/interhist.htm (347 words)

	uchronia.rtf
		While these negative versions of history are often touched with ambivalence, they primarily show how much worse our world might have been than it actually is, and thus implicitly support the status quo.
		Of the modern authors who have attempted utopian revisions of history, most have chosen to write them in a comic mode, softening their critiques of our history and muting their utopianism for a more cynical era.
		The most significant exception to the tendency for alternative histories to be either dystopias or comedies is Terry Bisson's 1988 novel Fire on the Mountain.
	www.sff.net /people/TBisson/uchronia.html (3078 words)

	American Alternative Journalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is a brief history of the genre and the people that shaped it in this century.
		The biggest trend in alternative journalism was ``New Journalism,'' the combination of non-fiction reporting with literary techniques associated with fiction writing.
		The period from 1975 to the present saw a maturation of the alternative press, as it struggled to stay relevant in yet another conservative age.
	www.brasscheck.com /seldes/history.html (3082 words)

	Alternative History
		The free event is sponsored by the Academic and Cultural Arts Series at Morningside and is open to the public.
		"Alternative History" examines how the media presents to the public major events such as Pearl Harbor, President John F. Kennedy's assassination, and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
		Taylor specializes in history related to the John F. Kennedy assassination and was founder and director of the first Kansas Kennedy Assassination Symposium held in Olathe in 1994.
	www.morningside.edu /morningside/news/Oct04/AlternativeHistory.htm (224 words)

	Sci-fi - Alternative History Genre
		Alternate History is science fiction that asks what if a familiar fact from the past is not as we know it.
		It is not necessary to re-invent the wheel here, since an extensive bibliography of books on Alternate History exists thanks to Robert B. Schmunk.
		It is also hard to talk about Alternate History without mentioning Harry Turtledove and his A-H anthologies.
	personal.anderson.ucla.edu /eloisa.borah/egbscifi.htm (401 words)

	Alternative History Links
		The fun part of alternative history is, of course, duh-uh, how interactive it is. For you netizens out there (and you know who you are!) that means on-line discussion groups.
		It has less history than Shwi and thus less traffic, but may well be the future of the internet's amateur AH interactive tomfoolery.
		Images from World History is a collection of digitalized photographs and maps to support the teaching of history at the upper secondary school and university level.
	www.suite101.com /links.cfm/6234 (5104 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Neiman's goal, in tracing that history, is to reposition contemporary philosophy on the solid moral ground on which the discipline was originally founded.
		In both cases, history seemed to have proved the impossibility of philosophy's "demand that truth and goodness coincide." But after Lisbon, at least, philosophers continued to attempt to reconcile the blunt suffering of the victims of natural disaster with the idea of a just world designed by a merciful God.
		Enter Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646-1716), the German philosopher and mathematician best known for his belief that ours is the "best of all possible worlds." Voltaire famously ridiculed this sunny view in "Candide," his savage meditation on the futility and fragility of the attempt to find any source of goodness.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.03.28/arts3.html (770 words)

	Read about Alternative history at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Alternative history and learn about Alternative ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A People's History of the United States as a view sympathetic to people
		Herstory as a history from a female perspective.
		Such histories may tend to explain away their lack of scholarship or documentation on a
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Alternative_history (164 words)

	Mundo Maya, Belize- The Maya on Ambergris and Surrounding Area, Ambergris Caye, Belize
		This history of the Maya continues today in over half the population of Ambergris Caye.
		To the people here on the island, this is more than a series of memories carved in limestone or glazed on pottery.
		There is an excellent timeline of Belizean history as well as some photos of Maya ceramicware.
	ambergriscaye.com /pages/mayan/maya.html (1523 words)

	AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board - Powered by vBulletin
		General discussion about alternate history scenarios where the divergence from real history occurs before 1900 AD.
		General discussion about alternate history scenarios where the divergence from real history happens from 1900 AD onward.
		Discuss alternate history scenarios that involve time travel, magic, alien intervention, anything in the sea of time, and other such weirdness.
	www.alternatehistory.com /Discussion (337 words)

	Stephen's Alternate History Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I believe that individuals are largely autonomous - unbound by fatalism and the "larger forces" of history- can change their minds, and, I believe, individuals can have a significant effect on history.
		Those who participate in creating alternate histories are sometimes accused of pushing "revisionist" beliefs through their timelines.
		Colonials Return - A future history scenario (which could have occured in the past, as well) in which Africa's political and social structures collapes completely, causing the rest of the world to "recolonize" the continent, bringing aid and relief to the suffering population who remain.
	users.metro2000.net /~stabbott/AH.htm (1663 words)

	AlternateHistory.com Web Guide
		It is mainly used for general alternate history related discussion.
		Much of it is not directly alternate history related, but it is quite active.
		This site has one very long scenario which is basically future history rather than alternate history, plus several alternate history scenarios focusing on Australia.
	www.alternatehistory.com /webguide.html (2104 words)

	Weblog of Thomas Frandzen - Alternative history
		It gives a lot more background information than Sugdens The Complete History of Jack the Ripper, but doesn't cover the actual murders as extensive.
		The play is about the spy affair which brought down german chancellor Willy Brandt in the 1970s, and it was a great experience.
		This production was (it seems) somewhat more humorous and "alternative" compared to other productions of the play, but it worked well and it made you laugh as well as think.
	www.livejournal.com /users/thf1977/13151.html (306 words)

	Reviews of Alternative History Fiction Novels -- Writers Write -- The IWJ
		This appealing collection of short stories from master alternative history storyteller Harry Turtledove, author of The Guns of the South, provides entertaining historical plot twists for the reader.
		This massive work by leading alternative novelist Harry Turtledove postulates what World War I could have been like had the United States never joined together as one country.
		Believable characters and alternative historical accounts that seem like real historical events make the reader believe this could really have been the way it happened if our country had never united.
	www.writerswrite.com /journal/oct98/fansf.htm (303 words)

	A Linguist's Alternative History of 'Redskin'
		For many Americans, both Indian and otherwise, the term "redskin" is a grotesque pejorative, a word that for centuries has been used to disparage and humiliate an entire people, but an exhaustive new study released today makes the case that it did not begin as an insult.
		Smithsonian Institution senior linguist Ives Goddard spent seven months researching its history and concluded that "redskin" was first used by Native Americans in the 18th century to distinguish themselves from the white "other" encroaching on their lands and culture.
		When it first appeared as an English expression in the early 1800s, "it came in the most respectful context and at the highest level," Goddard said in an interview.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/02/AR2005100201139.html (601 words)

	What if? An alternative history of tech \| CNET News.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The entire history of the tech industry, in fact, could have been vastly altered if the outcome of certain events or trends had changed.
		Gordon Moore himself once believed that it could end with 1-micron chips (which arrived in 1991) and later said the finish would come with 250-nanometer manufacturing (which appeared in 1997).
		In a lot of ways, the history of the tech industry is the story of people who didn't like their job.
	news.com.com /What+if+An+alternative+history+of+tech/2010-1071_3-5550138.html?part=rss&tag=5550138&subj=news.1071.20 (1585 words)

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