What if women had always been part of history books?

What if women had always been part of history books?

Imagine opening a history textbook and finding women not as occasional exceptions, but as scientists, explorers, artists, political thinkers and decision-makers shaping the world. Would we understand our past differently? And would we imagine our future the same way?...
Uchronia: Why Thinking “What If” Makes Us Smarter

Uchronia: Why Thinking “What If” Makes Us Smarter

Each of us has asked at least once in our lives: What would have happened if…? What would have happened if Napoleon had won the war of 1812, if Christianity had never emerged, or if Germany had won the Second World War? For a long time, academic scholars considered...