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Analysis

Primary tension

Certainty vs Uncertainty

Secondary tension

Comfort vs Truth

Socratic questions

  1. How does counterfactual reasoning enrich the understanding of historical processes?

  2. What are the pedagogical risks associated with using alternate histories in the classroom and how can they be avoided?

  3. How do alternate histories allow us to question the construction and subjectivity of historical narratives?

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