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  1. JFK returns to The US Senate

    So many threads about what if JFK had not been assassinated focus on JFK serving two full terms as President and on what his second term would have been like. But what about his post-White House years? According to things he said to some of his closest friends, and to some of his private...

  2. What if Bobbie Kennedy never ran for President?

    What if Bobbie Kennedy never ran for President? He instead feel he would be more effective in The Senate. As a result, he is not assassinated. He has a long successful career as a United States Senator from New York and even becomes a very powerful and influential senator. Today in 2008 Bobby...

  3. What if no Watergate and no Agnew kickback scandal?

    What if there had been no breakin at the Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate, what if none of that ever happened? President Richard M. Nixon and his entire staff are completely honest, clean, and above board. What if Spiro T. Agnew had never accepted any kickbacks when he was...

  4. Fidel Castro: Captialist

    What if instead of being Marxists or Communists, Fidel Castro and his brother Raul had both been devout Roman Catholics and just as devoted Capitalists seeking true Democratic government for The Cuban People? In 1959 when their revolution outsted the Batista government, Fidel Castro seeks to...

  5. Tsar Alexander III lives and reigns to a ripe old age.

    Tsar Alexander III was the epitome of The Great Russian Bear, 6 foot 5 and some 260 pounds. A true Tsar Autocrat who ruthlessly crushed any opposition. He was in many ways the exact opposite of his son Nicholas II. I've read that Nicholas II was very much in awe of his father and of the fact...

  6. October 1962: President Kennedy and Fidel Castro meet and talk.

    In the first few days of The Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK decides instead of dealing with Moscow, to deal directly with Havana. Kennedy seeks to meet and talk with Castro. Fidel Castro agrees, and they meet in Havana. Over Cuban cigars, JFK and Castro talk candidly with each other about the fears...

  7. Something I found on The ACW. Sounds like an alternate history. May be true.

    On a Google search I typed in "Black officers in The Confederate Army." This is one of the items that came up on the menu of websites. I don't know if any of it is true or not, or how much of it may be true. If any of it is then the whole Civil War was an alternate history, at least alternate...

  8. Jefferson Davis 16th President of The United States part 2

    This time let's make it even more interesting, and more way out or more alternate. Let's switch Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Jefferson Davis runs for President of The United States in 1860 and wins. Instead of running as a Democrat he runs as a Republican. A southerner who opposes...

  9. Jefferson Davis 16th President of The United States

    What if Jefferson Davis had run for President of The United States in 1860 and had won? He serves two full terms. How does this change history? Does it eliminate The Civil War? What effect does it have on slavery, abolition and emancipation, civil rights for African-Americans, race relations and...

  10. Cuba not given independence, becomes a US state.

    The USA aquired Cuba in The Spanish-American War of 1898, and for a time Cuba was a US possession. I think before becoming President, William Howard Taft was governor of Cuba for a few years. The USA gave Cuba its independence and the rest is history. But what if The USA had not given Cuba...

  11. December 7, 1941. San Francisco instead of Pearl Harbor

    I know it would have been a lot further for them to go to make the attack, and it probably would have been more difficult in terms of logistical planning, and the chance of failure would have been greater. But what if on December 7, 1941 instead of attacking Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Japan had...

  12. Stalin the gentle priest, Lenin the fierce loyalist

    Please excuse my spelling, and there's probably some side issues of which I'm ignorant, but here goes. Joseph Stalin stays in the seminary, noted for being very prayerful and contemplative. He becomes a Russian Orthodox Priest, eventually a Bishop and a Patriarch. Father Stalin stands out as a...

  13. North Carolina does not go with The Confederacy, remains in The Union.

    I have a cousin who lives in North Carolina who pointed out that North Carolina was next to the last Southern state to seceed and join The Confederacy. He said that in the mountains of western North Carolina there were a good many Union sympathizers, and a number of men in the western North...

  14. What if organized political parties never get started in The USA?

    Many of America's Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and others were fearful of organized political parties and felt they would only divide Americans instead of uniting us together as a nation. As a result they didn't want political parties as such to even get started...

  15. What if they had attended, what if they had joined?

    In 1774 when the First Continental Congress was adjorning, The Congress invited Quebec to sen delegates to the Second Continental Congress in May 1775. Private letters were also sent to the colonies of St. Johns, Nova Scotia, East Florida, and West Florida asking them to join in a boycott of...

  16. What if America had built a continued presence on the moon?

    I think the last manned moon mission was Apollo 17. But what if that had not been the last one? What if America had continued to concentrate heavily on manned lunar missions after Apollo 17, improving and them and the spacecraft to get us there and back, even establishing a permanent lunar base...

  17. More hellish than OTL's atomic bomb.

    I posted this same question earlier and it never got answered, it almost instantly went ASB. So let me rephrase the question. Suppose that when The USA dropped the atomic bombs (or TTL's version whatever it may be) on Japan ending WWII, the results and effects were far more horrible and far...

  18. What if there had never been slavery in The USA?

    What if slavery had never existed in Brittish North America? There fore, what if there had never been slavery in The USA not even in the southern states? That does not mean there are or were no Black people from Africa in North America? It's just that they never become slaves. Black people...

  19. The Great Library at Alexandria didn't burn, its knowledge survived to the present.

    When The Great Library at Alexandria burned a great amount of the knowledge of the ancient world was destroyed and lost forever. But what if The Great Library at Alexandria had not burned? The knowledge contained in the books that were destroyed in that fire instead survived. Over the ages as...

  20. The United States retains Cuba, makes Cuba a state.

    In The Spanish American War in 1898 The United States aquired Cuba. On May 20, 1902 The USA gave Cuba its independence. But what if The USA had instead retained Cuba as a US territory the same way we have with Puerta Rico? It would have been easy to justify retaining Cuba since it is only 90...
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