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  1. AHC: How could the Partition of India have been made peaceful?

    There are two parts to this question. PoD after 1944 is preferred, but not before 1937. 1. Assuming that Partition was the only way to avoid a messy civil war, how could the violence during the population exchange (or the population exchange itself) have been avoided? 2. If Partition is...

  2. "Black Republic" as part of Reconstruction

    I'm wondering about a possibility that has been floated once or twice about a "Black America" republic during reconstruction. Dave Chappelle was apparently attached to an Amazon original series that never got made in which Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama were given to freed slaves during...

  3. Dominant French America timelines?

    Most timelines involving alternate North America involves the US ending up either bigger or smaller, or staying British. Are there any timelines where, instead of a British colony gaining independence and becoming the dominant world power, a French colony in roughly the same geographic area...

  4. What would an independent Katanga be like?

    Katanga, the breakaway nation that existed in what is now the DRC from 1960 to 1963, is a bit of an oddity. The independence of the region was essentially sponsored by the Belgian mining company that operated in the area, and it had a sizable White minority, but unlike Rhodesia and South...

  5. WI: 54-40 Fought and won?

    Suppose that, during the Oregon Dispute, the British are suddenly occupied elsewhere. For example, maybe the Opium War goes south or there's an Indian uprising or perhaps the Boers attack, or maybe the Revolutions of 1848 come early and Britain needs troops closer to home. Maybe some...

  6. Making a confusing, overly-complex political system

    Here's an idea: What if some country made an overly complicated political system that ended up being so complicated and confusing, that it functioned as free and fair because nobody would be able to figure out how to abuse it for their own gain. Some guidelines: -The system shouldn't be...

  7. WI: No push for federal government in US?

    In OTL, the Colonies originally had the Articles of Confederation, which provided for a single central Congress to coordinate governance between the States, but had no mechanisms for funding or enforcement. When economic pressures came to the forefront, federalists such as Adams and Hamilton...

  8. AHC: Western Schism becomes permanent

    In OTL, the Avignon Papacy split with Rome based on political factors: The relative influence between the Kingdom of France and Rome itself over Catholic Christendom, and the fact that Urban VI was a tosser. The split continued even after Urban and the others died. How can this schism be made...

  9. Culture in 1632

    One of the complaints I've heard most often about Eric Flint's book 1632 is that most downtimers are perfectly willing to integrate completely and fully into American society, which is new to them and which they know very little about, and no issues arise from moral or cultural differences...

  10. Harshest possible terms against Central Powers?

    The OTL treaties of Versailles, Sevres, etc. were pretty damn harsh on their own, but the French were not pleased with it. If the war had gone on longer, and Germany suffered French troops marching across the Rhine; if the American and British voices of moderation were stifled or silenced, what...

  11. AHC: 3-way ACW

    A civil war between free states and slave states had been in the cards pretty much from the adoption of the constitution. How might a third side, hostile to both other sides, come to be? PoD must be after 1789, and the third side must come from within the USA's borders.

  12. WI: The CCP invades Hong Kong?

    The Chinese Communists seemed unstoppable when the People's Republic was proclaimed in 1949. Revolutionary fervor was at an all-time high. The British government drew up plans to evacuate to Australia. But in OTL, the People's Liberation Army was ordered to stop at the Shenzhen border...

  13. AHC: A foreign country petitions to join the USA

    In the early 20th century it was believed by some (though not many) that Panama, upon seeing their prosperity soar due to the new Panama Canal, would petition to join the US as a state. Obviously, that never happened. What countries might petition to join the USA, and would the USA accept...

  14. AHC: Esperanto Nation

    What would it take for the creation of a nation based around the use of Esperanto? This ought to be quite a challenge, given that Esperanto is intended to be specifically non-nationalist and politically neutral in nature. However, that didn't stop Hitler from condemning Esperanto as part of a...

  15. Let's create a fascist USA

    Previous threads have mainly been concerned with the possibility of the rise of fascism in the US. The consensus seems to be that totalitarianism in the USA runs too counter to prevailing cultural currents. I'd like for this thread to be a bit broader in scope, detailing the lead up to the...

  16. WI: Expansionist USSR starts WWII without Germany?

    In OTL, Stalin's Socialism in One Country doctrine made the USSR strengthen itself internally, rather than trying to immediately spread its ideology. What if the USSR instead rearmed and went on the warpath as soon as it could, trying to spread communism to the entirety of Europe? To...

  17. AHC: "World Capital" after WW2

    I've recently been struck with an idea, that the various world powers could come together in the aftermath of World War II in order to build an "international city." It would be purpose-built for housing the UN, and each UN country would ideally have its own district. There are a few obvious...

  18. AHC: Fascism in Mexico

    In OTL, right-wing extremism never really got a foothold in Mexico because socialists led by Plutarco Elías Calles ended up gaining the upper hand in the Mexican Revolution. Your challenge is to figure out a way for Mexican domestic politics to become dominated by either a fascist or a...

  19. WI: Soviet Civil War

    What would happen if the dissolution of the USSR goes sour and conservative elements attempt military force to reverse reforms in order to keep the country together? Would we see a nuclear civil war, or would the presence of nuclear weapons force a stalemate?

  20. Help me develop an idea?

    An idea came to me yesterday. In early revolutionary France, a system of active and passive citizenship was briefly used, where citizens needed to pay a certain level of tax in order to vote. "Passive Citizens" were constitutionally protected with respect to life, liberty, and belongings...
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