Ward Moore‘s alternative history of the US, Bring the Jubilee, begins with a contemporary America (1953) with a twist: the Confederate States of America had won the War Between the States and seceded from the U.S.
Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore
the aftermath of the war had not been kind to the U.S.; impoverished and backwards it stands counter to the prosperous CSA that had expanded past Mexico and whose major cities were rivals to London and Paris. slavery had been abolished thanks to the efforts of former President Robert E. Lee.
but what happens when a time machine allows a citizen of the U.S. to go back to, say, the battle of Gettysburg?
