Café Historique
What If? Counterfactual History for Beginners
Hermann’s Jazz Club – 753 View Street
Doors: 5:30 pm Start time: 7:00 pm
Wednesday October 15
What if Europe had been wiped out by the Black Death in 1348?
What if Pizarro had not discovered potatoes in Peru?
And what if Napoleon had won the battle of Waterloo?
What if Pizarro had not discovered potatoes in Peru?
And what if Napoleon had won the battle of Waterloo?
Wednesday November 5
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
Wednesday February 4
John Lutz
What if… Disease had not Decimated
the Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest?
John Lutz
What if… Disease had not Decimated
the Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest?
Wednesday March 4
TBA
Wednesday April 1
Jason Colby
What if… the South had Won the US Civil War?
