Alternate History
Illustrated "what if" timelines — one real turning point changed, traced forward with scene art.
22 artifacts
The Bullet Nobody Saw
What if… China's earliest outbreak warnings are believed and acted on in the first days of January 2020, Hubei is sealed before the Lunar New Year travel rush, and the coronavirus burns out as a…
The Strawberries at Walhain
What if… Marshal Grouchy marches to the sound of the guns on 18 June 1815, the Prussians never reach the field, and Napoleon wins at Mont-Saint-Jean.
The Line You Apply For
What if… What if the internetworking protocols had been classified in 1975, leaving the world's data networks to be built, licensed, and metered by state telephone monopolies?
The Number He Got Right
What if… What if, in 1942, Werner Heisenberg had told Hitler's armaments minister the truth about how small and how soon an atomic bomb could be, and Germany had built one first?
All Roads Ran East
What if… What if the Mongol army had not turned back at the Danube in 1242, and instead rode on to conquer Western Europe?
The Sea of Fertility
What if… A surgeon's steady hand saves Sergei Korolev in 1966, and the Soviet Union lands a cosmonaut on the Moon seven weeks before Apollo 11.
The Fever That Broke Too Early
What if… What if, over the weekend of September 13–14, 2008, Washington backstopped Lehman Brothers' trading book and Barclays absorbed the firm, so the crash that defined the Great Recession never…
Two Flags Over the Ohio
What if… What if a Confederate courier never lost Lee's battle plans in September 1862, so the South won on Northern soil, drew in Britain and France, and secured permanent independence?
The Radiant Age
What if… What if J.P. Morgan had kept funding Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe tower, and the world had been built around wireless, broadcast electric power instead of wires?
Peace With Honour
What if… In May 1940, Britain's War Cabinet chooses to negotiate rather than fight on after Dunkirk — and the war, and the century, bend around that choice.
The Wind That Held
What if… What if the Spanish Armada survived the Calais fireships in 1588, ferried the Duke of Parma's army across the Channel, and conquered Elizabethan England?
The Long Afternoon of Camelot
What if… John F. Kennedy survives the Dallas assassination attempt, fundamentally altering the trajectory of the Vietnam War and the political realignment of the 1960s.
The Armored Era
What if… Donald Trump is killed by the assassin's bullet at the 2024 Butler rally, plunging the United States into a profound political and cultural crisis.
The Sun Never Sets on the Americas
What if… A weather shift allows the British to capture George Washington and his army in 1776, crushing the American Revolution in its infancy.
The Sunrise Discovery
What if… Christopher Columbus fails to secure funding in 1492, leaving the Americas uncontacted by Europe until Chinese navigators traverse the Pacific a half-century later.
The Channel Wall
What if… The D-Day landings are completely repelled by an immediate German armored counterattack, forcing a devastating Allied retreat.
The Eternal Archive
What if… A sudden shift in wind spares the Library of Alexandria from Julius Caesar's fire, leading to its establishment as an untouchable, sovereign sanctuary of knowledge.
The Broken Taboo: The Limited Exchange of 1962
What if… Instead of being talked down, the captain of a Soviet submarine fires a nuclear torpedo at the US Navy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, triggering a localized nuclear war.
The Morning It Stopped
What if… The 9/11 hijackers are stopped at airport security checkpoints, preventing the attacks and fundamentally altering America's 21st century.
The Baku Imperative
What if… The Nazis repel the Soviet encirclement at Stalingrad, securing the Caucasus oil fields and shifting the entire strategic balance of World War II.
The Better Angels
What if… Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard stays at his post at Ford's Theatre, preventing the assassination and allowing Lincoln to personally oversee Reconstruction.
The Long Peace
What if… Gavrilo Princip misses his chance to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand, averting the outbreak of World War I.