A Fork In Time: The Alternate History Podcast

Mar 20, 2021 • E97 • 00:41:56

Send a Message to the TeamEpisode 0097—AFIT Archive: No PARCing

The podcast is taking a "spring break", but we thought an episode from the "early days" that many of our new listeners might have heard might a good idea.  We are...

Mar 12, 2021 • E96 • 00:46:32

Send a Message to the TeamVietnamese revolutionary lead Ho Chi Minh is said to have twice approached the United States seeking assistance in gaining independence from France as a colonial power.
 
How would the course of history have been differen...

Mar 08, 2021 • E95 • 00:56:08

Send a Message to the TeamOn January 3, 1896, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II sent a telegram to Transvaal Republic President, Johannes Kruger congratulating him on the recent success in repelling an attack from British raiders.  In the real timeline, th...

Mar 01, 2021 • E94 • 00:20:34

Send a Message to the Team1492 marked the beginning of many things "new", including the discovery of a New World by Christopher Columbus sailing under the banner of a newly-united and soon-to-be ascending Spain.

In this second of severa...

Feb 20, 2021 • E93 • 01:02:55

Send a Message to the TeamIn the early 1950s, Jonas Salk and other scientists led the effort to develop and deploy an effective vaccine against polio.  In subsequent decades, significant progress was made to eradicate other diseases through the developmen...

Feb 13, 2021 • E92 • 00:27:41

Send a Message to the Team1492 marked the beginning of many things "new", including the discovery of a New World by Christopher Columbus sailing under the banner of a newly-united and soon-to-be ascending Spain.

In this first of several...

Feb 08, 2021 • E91 • 00:37:36

Send a Message to the TeamAs many as nine of Queen Victoria's male descendants suffered from hemophilia, a bleeding disorder known to be inherited on a recessive gene on the X-chromosome.

How might history have been changed if Victoria had n...

Jan 29, 2021 • E90 • 00:47:48

Send a Message to the TeamThe first major battle of the 1898 Spanish-American war was the US naval victory over Spanish forces at the Battle of Manila Bay.  What if Spain had been victorious in that battle?  How would the near term course of the war and t...

Jan 22, 2021 • E89 • 00:46:18

Send a Message to the TeamIn 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million thereby increasing the land size of the US by over 20% for what is now considered a financial bargain.How would history be different if Russian and/or the S...

Jan 15, 2021 • E88 • 00:48:06

Send a Message to the TeamWhile the guns and steel of European explorers and conquerors proved deadly to the indigenous people of the New World, the most devasting impact came in the form of new diseases for which they had no immunity.  However, imagine t...