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An entire channel dedicated to the ’What If?”. Using knowledge of geography, population and other historical facts I predict what could have happened had things gone differently in history. Learn about how the world would be different if, the Axis won World War II, if America lost the Revolution,…

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Alternate History Hub is a YouTube channel dedicated to Alternate History. That is, it looks at various important events throughout history and imagines what would happen if the outcome was different, and what it would have to change to make that outcome possible. It presents all of this with an eye to making it humorous.
Also, the channel also occasionally puts out a video simply about a historical event, without the alternate history.

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The two primary strengths of this resource are its humor and its encouragement of critical thinking, the latter being the most important factor here. In order to understand what would happen if a historical event changed, one has to know in depth how the historical event came about in the first place. This could give my potential students insight into how historical events are deeply intertwined with a whole host of other factors and other events, and not just a series of occurrences independent of each other. The funny presentation of this information would serve to keep my students engaged.

The principal weakness of this resource is that it is not designed to be education, but rather entertainment. It is not a second Crash Course. Thus, sometimes information takes a back seat to making the viewer laugh. Furthermore, sometimes the alternate history presented is mere speculation without grounding in historical analysis (when this happens, however, the presenter states so).

Despite this weakness, I would, like the Freedom House Map, more than recommend it for use, as long as it is used in a more limited capacity. It can serve as an entertaining introduction to a particular historical topic as well as the critical analysis of history in general.

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2021 was the 16th consecutive year of decline in global freedom.

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Freedom House - Explore the map of global freedom and internet freedom around the world.

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The Freedom House Map allows the viewer to view the state of political and social freedom in the world on a country-by-country basis. If the viewer clicks on a country, they can read the Freedom House report as to why that country was given the score it was.

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The main strength of this tool is its ease of use. The earning curve to figure out how to use it is nearly nonexistent. Furthermore, another strength is that it compiles and presents all this political information in one place, allowing one to analyze many country's systems of government quickly. The map also features Internet freedom and a country's state of democracy as options as well, but their not as comprehensive as the political freedom metric.

One weakness of the website, and probably the biggest one, is that it takes a while for Freedom House to update their information. Case in point, the political freedom reports have not been updated since the end of 2020. Thus, the main caution here is that one should not expect totally up-to-date political information with this resource, but rather instead use it form looking at general freedom trends.

However, the strengths and conveniences of the website more than outweigh its weaknesses, and I would absolutely recommend it.

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In the end, I would recommend it, but only on a limited basis for specific uses. One probably wont be able to find their favorite author on here (as that's copyrighted), but it is a historical treasure trove if one is interested in or writing about old literature. Just don't cite its books in your cutting-edge paper about String Theory or whathaveyou.