079 - What If The Confederacy Won The American Civil War?

About this episode: 

For millennia humans have reflected on historical events. Quite often, one poses the timeless question: what if - had a life been spared or taken, had a candidate won rather than lost and, as it relates to this episode, what if a battle or war ended differently? So, with a degree of trepidation, we address that last question and will do so through the works of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and two university professors. With writing fueled by incredible imagination and plots, characters and consequences drawn from factual trends and themes, we offer three stories from the genre of alternative and counterfactual history. Three stories that address “what if” the South had won the American Civil War.    

         

For Further Reading:

If The South Had Won The Civil War by MacKinlay Kantor

 

The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove

 

The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been by Roger L. Ransom

 

Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War by William Forstchen and Newt Gingrich

 

Grant Comes East: A Novel of the Civil War (The Gettysburg Trilogy, 2) by William Forstchen and Newt Gingrich

 

Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory: A Novel of the Civil War (The Gettysburg Trilogy, 3) by William Forstchen and Newt Gingrich

 

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Producer: Dan Irving