Café Historique
What If? Counterfactual History for Beginners
What if Pizarro had not discovered potatoes in Peru?
And what if Napoleon had won the battle of Waterloo?
Though the Ottoman Empire’s rivals had long dismissed it as a “sick man”, and saw the Ottoman front in World War I as a mere sideshow, this talk considers how formidable an opponent the Ottomans proved, and how different the region, and the world, would be had Ottoman leaders not decided to enter the War on the side of Germany.
Wednesday December 3
Simon Devereaux
What if ... Oswald had missed? JFK & Vietnam
Dr. Devereaux will review the cases 'for' and 'against' the most enduring counterfactual proposition surrounding John F. Kennedy and his tragically foreshortened presidency – that he would have found the will and the means to avoid becoming entangled in war in Southeast Asia, the single greatest American foreign policy disaster of the
twentieth century.
John Lutz
What if… Disease had not Decimated
the Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest?
Wednesday April 1
Jason Colby
What if… the South had Won the US Civil War?
