Francis Spufford's novel imagines a 1920s city in which Native Americans still hold territory and political power, and the "color line" doesn't exist — until a grisly murder disrupts everything. This ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently declared that it was a crime to teach the Advanced Placement (AP) African American studies course to Florida’s high school students. The Republican claimed that ...

Alternate history, according to Merriam-Webster, is "fiction that is based on history and that explores what might have happened if certain historical events, figures, etc., had been different." The ...

There's something endlessly fascinating about watching history rewritten on screen. While period dramas pride themselves on authenticity, alternate history shows revel in asking "what if?" They take ...

There are a lot of ways that filmmakers and storytellers have reworked real history with an alternate version of that history over the years. Often it's a re-imagining of major events like wars, but ...