A Fork In Time: The Alternate History Podcast

Jul 16, 2020 • E62 • 00:46:35

Send a Message to the TeamIn 1746, British forces put down the Jacobite Rebellion with a final victory at the Battle of Culloden ending forever Stuart hopes of being restored to the British crown.

How might the course of not only British history...

Jul 09, 2020 • E61 • 00:49:40

Send a Message to the TeamChris Copolla joins as a guest host once again to explore an alternative timeline where the Mongol sea-borne invasion of Japan is not impacted by the arrival of a typhoon--the kamikaze ("divine wind").

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Jul 03, 2020 • E60 • 00:48:37

Send a Message to the TeamEpisode 0060—Olive Us Together

In July 1775, the American colonies made one last effort to avoid all-out war with Britain in the form of the Olive Branch Petition.

How might history have played out if George III...

Jun 25, 2020 • E59 • 00:47:47

Send a Message to the TeamHistory is often moved by the "winds of change".  Sometimes, those forces are actually the winds of nature.  In this final installment in our 4-part series on the impact of hurricanes in history, we explore the "wh...

Jun 18, 2020 • E58 • 00:51:15

Send a Message to the TeamHistory is often moved by the "winds of change".  Sometimes, those forces are actually the winds of nature.  In Part 3 of our 4 part series on the impact of hurricanes in history, we explore the "what if" of t...

Jun 11, 2020 • E57 • 00:56:04

Send a Message to the TeamHistory is often moved by the "winds of change".  Sometimes, those forces are actually the winds of nature.  In Part 2 of our 4 part series on the impact of hurricanes in history, we explore the "what if" of t...

Jun 04, 2020 • E56 • 01:11:27

Send a Message to the TeamHistory is often moved by the "winds of change".  Sometimes, those forces are actually the winds of nature.  In this first episode of our 4-part series on the impact of hurricanes in history, we explore the "what i...

May 28, 2020 • E55 • 00:33:30

Send a Message to the TeamSome people make a distinction between "counterfactual" and "alternate" history.  So, since we are podcast devoted to that, maybe an episode to briefly address the similarities and differences is probably not...

May 21, 2020 • E54 • 00:21:04

Send a Message to the TeamWith its independence from Great Britain, the United States chose to forego a monarch as head of state and instead elected George Washington as its first president.  However, history does remind us that some suggested that Washin...

May 14, 2020 • E53 • 00:27:19

Send a Message to the TeamThe final two scenes of series of the 1980's NBC television hospital drama St. Elsewhere recast the entire series as potentially the vivid imagining of one autistic boy, Tommy Westphall.

What are the theoretical &qu...