History Main / AllohistoricalAllusion

* Played with in GunsOfTheSouth, also by Turtledove, after losing the Civil War, Lincoln contemplates writing a book about what would have happened if "it hadn't been for Bobbie Lee"

* In ''{{Watchmen}}'', RobertRedford running against the incumbent Richard Nixon for the Presidency is met with derision, "This is still America! People don't want a cowboy actor for president!" In 1985 when it was written, the President was RonaldReagan, who previously had a career as a cowboy actor.

* In an episode of ''StrikeWitches'' (which is set in an alternate 1944 in which aliens invaded and conquered most of continental Europe in 1939), Minna comments how if the aliens hadn't invaded, their superiors (Europe's political and military leaders) would likely be [[WorldWarTwo fighting among themselves]].

* There are several in KimNewman and Eugene Byrne's BackInTheUSSA series of short stories. Including one where a character comments that something was as strange as finding London Bridge in the Arizona desert.

* Robert Silverberg's "A Hero of the Empire" has the Roman main character speculating what the world would be like if he doesn't [[spoiler:assassinate Mohammed before Islam takes off.]] He does.

* Philip Roth wrote an alternate history version of America where Charles Lindberg is elected president after FDR. The novel takes place in WWII and is a speculation of what would have happened if an Anti-Semite was in charge of the country during Hitler's rise to power.

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* In {{Watchmen}} Robert Redford running against the incumbent Richard Nixon for the Presidency is met with derision, "This is still America! People don't want a cowboy actor for president!" In 1985 when it was written, the President was Ronald Reagan, who previously had a career as a cowboy actor.

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* One WildCards novel had a throwaway reference of TheBeatles either suspected of or having mind powers.

* The difference between the 'verse of the book {{Fatherland}} and that of TheFilmOfTheBook can be marked by a pair of references. The book includes a conversation that suggests that the Mersey Beat never left Merseyside. The movie has a Beatles poster up in Nazi Berlin.

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** Aruba war vets.

** And, in the moment that [[WhamEpisode ended the first season,]] [[TheWarOnTerror the White House has just finished reconstruction from the 9-11 attacks, and the World Trade Center still stands.]]

* Turtledove loves this. In one of the "Tosev Timeline" stories (WorldWar) he has a alien invasion craft's nuclear reactor get blown up and contaminate the surrounding area.... that area being Chernobyl. And then, later, a captured member of The Race is being interrogated by the Japanese and wishes that a nuke would fall on him. He is being interrogated in Hiroshima.

** A reference to the Lindbergh baby draws a blank stare.

* In {{Watchmen}} Robert Redford running against the incumbent Richard Nixon for the Presidency is meant with derision, "This is still America! People don't want a cowboy actor for president!" In 1985 when it was written, the President was Ronald Reagan, who previously had a career as a cowboy actor.

* One of the earlier AlternateHistory works, WinstonChurchill's "If Lee Had Not Won The Battle of Gettysburg" in J.C. Squire's AlternateHistory collection ''If It Had Happened Otherwise'' (1929), used this as a framing device: a historian musing what would've happened had the Union won. (Among the results of Lee's victory, [[BenjaminDisraeli Disraeli]] and [[WilliamGladstone Gladstone]] end up in the opposite parties, slavery is abolished by Robert E. Lee, and WorldWarI is prevented.)

* One of the earlier AlternateHistory works, WinstonChurchill's "If Lee Had Not Won The Battle of Gettysburg" in J.C. Squire's AlternateHistory collection ''If It Had Happened Otherwise...'', used this as a framing device: Confederate historians musing what would've happened had the Union won.

* One of the earlier AlternateHistory works used this as a framing device: Confederate historians musing what would've happened had the Union won.