Virtual History

  • Virtual History: How Videogames Portray the Past
    By A. Martin Wainwright

    Film critic Roger Ebert caused a swirl of controversy in 2005 when he declared that videogames were “inherently inferior to film and literature.” Much of the debate focused on the definition of art, which Ebert believed precluded ...

  • Virtual History: Alternatives And Counterfactuals
    By Niall Ferguson

    Niall Ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed The Pity of War, leads the charge in this historically rigorous series of separate voyages into “imaginary time” and provides far-reaching answers to these intriguing questions.Ferguson's ...

  • Virtual History: Alternatives And Counterfactuals
    By Niall Ferguson

    Niall Ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed The Pity of War, leads the charge in this historically rigorous series of separate voyages into “imaginary time” and provides far-reaching answers to these intriguing questions.Ferguson's ...

  • Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals
    By Niall Ferguson

    What if there had been no American War of Independence? What if Kennedy had lived? These are some of the questions "answered" in "Virtual History", which provides intriguing, far-reaching answers to these questions.

  • Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals
    By Niall Ferguson

    Speculates what may have happened if nine major events did not occur, asking such questions as, "What if there had been no American Revoultion?" and "What if John F. Kennedy had lived?"