Jazz, perhaps you should take up the writing of alternative history, a classy name for fiction which depends for its plots on an alternative outcome or development to a real historical fact. I just recently read several books by an author with the somewhat improbable name of Harry Turtledove, which take as their departure point what would have been the course of U.S. history if Robert E. Lee had won the battle of Gettyburg. Such works require a lot of real scholarship as well as imagination.