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- Counterfactual history (also virtual history) is a form of historiography that attempts to answer the What if? questions that arise from counterfactual conditions. Counterfactual history seeks by "conjecturing on what did not happen, or what might have happened, in order to understand what did happen."
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Counterfactual history (also virtual history) is a form of historiography that attempts to answer the What if? questions that arise from counterfactual conditions. [1] Counterfactual history seeks by "conjecturing on what did not happen, or what might have happened, in order to understand what did happen." [2]
- What if Charles Darwin had sought political office?
- What if the Ottoman Empire had succeeded in capturing Vienna in 1529?
- What if Queen Elizabeth I had never been born?
- What if King Henry VIII had been impotent?
Jul 26, 2023 · As a portrayal of the turning points of modern German history, “Roads Not Taken” is a superb exhibition. Yet it also poses big questions about the role of “what if?” history in an age in which facts have come under new pressures and in which global crises suggest that our own time, too, is some sort of historical turning point.
- Jeremy Cliffe
May 5, 2022 · As historians, we’re often taught to be skeptical of counterfactual history, speculations into how historical events would be different if things had gone differently. History, we’re told, is an account of the past, of things that actually happened.
May 27, 2020 · These questions provide the starting points for interesting discussions of the actual historical events and their alternative outcomes. Many armchair historians have spent hours daydreaming of what might have been if some turning point in history had gone another way.
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