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• xiii • Introduction (What Ifs? of American History) • (2003) • essay by Robert Cowley
• 1 • Might the Mayflower Not Have Sailed? • (2003) • essay by Theodore K. Rabb
• 17 • William Pitt the Elder and the Avoidance of the American Revolution • (2003) • essay by Caleb Carr
• 43 • What the Fog Wrought: The Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 • (1999) • essay by David McCullough
• 55 • 'His Accidency' John Tyler • (2003) • essay by Tom Wicker
• 67 • Lew Wallace and the Ghosts of the Shunpike • (2003) • essay by Victor Davis Hanson
• 87 • If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union, 1862 • (1999) • essay by James M. McPherson
• 103 • The Northwest Conspiracy • (2003) • essay by Thomas Fleming
• 127 • Beyond the Wildest Dreams of John Wilkes Booth • (2003) • essay by Jay Winik
• 147 • The Revolution of 1877 • (2003) • essay by Cecelia Holland
• 163 • The Whale Against the Wolf: The Anglo-American War of 1896 • (2003) • essay by Andrew Roberts
• 179 • No Pearl Harbor? FDR Delays the War • (2003) • essay by John Lukacs
• 189 • If Eisenhower Had Gone to Berlin • (2003) • essay by Antony Beevor
• 205 • Joe McCarthy's Secret Life • (2003) • essay by Ted Morgan
• 225 • If the U-2 Hadn't Flown • (2003) • essay by George Feifer
• 251 • The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust • (2003) • essay by Robert L. O'Connell
• 273 • JFK Lives • (2003) • essay by Robert Dallek
• 285 • What If Watergate Were Still Just an Upscale Address? • (2003) • essay by Lawrence Malkin and John F. Stacks