Hi Alex, I do not want to take sides in the thread that exploded in Re: Devteach - (Getting into Canada) Thread #897012 but your comment in Message #900547 re "alternate history books" peaked my interest.

imo there is no objective history except for in the most simple cases. History is observed, interpreted, and documented by humans with the human tendency of subjectivity. What one can get is a concensus view of history within a society or community or group of people. When that happens then automatically, within that group, all other versions are labeled "alternate history".

History is truly written by the victors. Or even better by George Orwell in 1984 "Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past".