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  1. Fidel Castro: MLB All-Star?

    You have to love cracked.com. Sometimes they find stuff even die hard history nerds like us have never heard of. For me, this was it. http://www.cracked.com/article_19888_5-famous-people-who-secretly-had-awesome-second-careers.html How would Cuba have turned out if Fidel Castro was busy...

  2. Incredible Badasses of Alternate History

    I recently found this article about a man named Rick Rescorla, an incredible British human being that served in Rhodesia, then became an American to serve in Vietnam, and then saved about 2000 lives during the September 11th attacks, while he was stricken with bone marrow cancer. This...

  3. Question on Amadeo I of Spain

    Amadeo I of Spain, who ruled from 1870-1873, also known for being the Duke of Aosta, lived from 1845-1890. This being such a short lifespan, I was wondering how exactly he died, if it was some foulplay or accident or heart attack or something. I couldnt find anything however. Can anyone help me...

  4. Wesley Clark WI

    Wesley Clark, an American general who served in Kosovo and who was a presidential nominee in 2004 for the Democrats, dropped out of the Iowa causus, allowing John Kerry and John Edwards to secure crucial points. He once said that if he had stayed on the caucus, "everything would have been...

  5. Teddy Roosevelts Life Expectancy

    Teddy Roosevelt died in 1919, after being severly weakened by malaria, which he had contracted on one of his famous trips in the jungles of South America. He was 61 when he died. How long would he have lived if he had not contracted malaria? What effects could this have had on the politics of...

  6. No Cuban Missile Crisis

    What would have occurred if American spy planes did not succeed in finding Soviet missile bases in Cuba? Whether the American planes looked at the wrong area, or by accidentally missed the bases, whatever is more plausible.

  7. The 14th Amendment

    The 14th Amendment, passed in 1868, was a reconstruction amendment used to describe citizenship and the rights of those said citizens. It also protects against the disenfranchisement of those said citizens. During the Gilded Age, I learned from my AP US teacher, that some large trusts and...

  8. Tucker: The Man and His Dream POD's

    I watched the movie the other day, and when looking it up, was surprised that it was all true! Preston Tucker was an business man who had a knack for innovation. Before World War II, Tucker introduced an armored vehicle that could reach up 115 MPH, but was shot down by the army for actually...

  9. Challenge: Make Swimming a highly popular sport

    Swimming is already a popular sport, and during the Olympics it has some of the highest viewership out of any of the other sports, but could it be kept up throughout the year as a popular sport, a la american football? Like prime-time televised meets, etc. etc.?

  10. Franco-Prussian war WI?

    Like the title says. Since there were so many reasons the war started, do you think changing a few of them could have avoided it? I know there was a thread about the aftermath if it didn't happen, but what would prevent the war? This is with a POD after the Luxemburg Crisis.

  11. Different Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

    I read in Wikipedia a list of proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and thought it would be cool to ask others what they think some other likely ones could be, or that anyone would have liked to see in U.S. history,because of any movement, event, or anything really. Heres the Wiki...

  12. The Discord That Follows

    My first attempt at any timeline whatsoever. Comments and Criticism are Welcome. AN AHISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD 1865-2009 “Untune that string, take but degree away, and hark! what discord follows…” April 7th, 1865 Robert E. Lee strode down a dirt path toward Appomattox. As...
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