| I. | If Themistocles Had Not Beaten
Aristides in an Athenian Election | 13 |
| II. | If the Moors Had Won the
Battle of Tours | 21 |
| III. | If King Ethelred of England
Had Not Married the Norman Emma | 30 |
| IV. | If Columbus Had Kept His
Straight Course Westward | 37 |
| V. | If Queen Elizabeth of England
Had Left a Son or Daughter | 47 |
| VI. | If the Philarmonia Had Not
Given Concerts at Vicenza | 56 |
| VII. | If the Spanish Armada Had
Sailed at Its Appointed Time | 64 |
| VIII. | If Champlain Had Tarried in
Plymouth Bay | 71 |
| IX. | If Charles II Had Accepted the
Kingship of Virginia | 79 |
| X. | If Admiral Penn Had Persisted in
Disowning His Son William | 91 |
| XI. | If the Boy George Washington
Had Become a British Midshipman | 99 |
| XII. | If Alexander Hamilton Had Not
Written About the Hurricane | 107 |
| XIII. | If Lafayette Had Held the
French Reign of Terror in Check | 114 |
| XIV. | If Gilbert Livingston Had Not
Voted New York into the Union | 121 |
| XV. | If the Pirate Jean Lafitte Had
Joined the British at New Orleans | 129 |
| XVI. | If James Macdonnel Had Not
Closed the Gates of Hugomont Castle | 138 |
| XVII. | If Abraham Lincoln's Father Had
Moved Southward, Not Northward | 150 |
| XVIII. | If Skipper Jennings Had Not Rescued
Certain Shipwrecked Japanese | 160 |
| XIX. | If Orsini's Bomb Had Not Failed
to Destroy Napoleon III | 170 |
| XX. | If President James Buchanan Had
Enforced the Law in November, 1860 | 176 |
| XXI. | If the Confederates Had Marched
on Washington After Bull Run | 185 |
| XXI. | If the Confederates States Had Purchased
the East India Company's Fleet in 1861 | 194 |
