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  1. AHC: Communist United States pre-1900

    I'm thinking of a steampunk alternate-history story which would, among other things, involve a United States that's gone Communist. What I'm not clear on is the backstory, except that I'm leaning toward a point of divergence during or shortly after the American Civil War (which still does...

  2. WI United 175 on 9/11 collided with another plane midair before hitting the WTC?

    While reading an excellent and dramatic book on 9/11 (Touching History by Lynn Spencer), I learned about an interesting footnote about that morning which I immediately thought of as a potential PoD. At 9:01 AM, while the hijackers were piloting their second plane (United 175) over New York City...

  3. Aftermath of a quick Union victory in 1861?

    Say the 1861 newspapers' headlines of "on to Richmond" came true, and First Bull Run was a Union victory, with full victory following soon afterwards. What would be the political and social aftermath? Confederate President Davis was present at Bull Run, so supposing he was captured, nominal...

  4. Marching On: John Brown Strikes South

    I have heard the dreadful rumor of the judgement of the Lord; How He trampled out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword - Stand back; stand back from John Brown! -- Anonymous, c. 1860 Many treasured tales have...

  5. Best plausible British Raj?

    Some time back, I thought the British Raj (aka British Indian Empire) was a good thing. After all, if India was united, brought into peace, and ruled by people with as much sympathy for their subjects as Kipling who enacted laws as enlightened as Napier's ban on suttee... Well, it turned out...

  6. AHC: More economically developed Italy in late 1800's

    With a PoD after the 1848 revolutions are suppressed, how can we improve the economic development of Italy in the late 1800's?

  7. Home Rule Act implemented before WWI

    The Irish Home Rule Act of 1914 was initially proposed in 1912 but only passed in 1914 under the Parliament Act of 1911, after two rejections by the House of Lords. It would have established a devolved Parliament in Ireland, but was suspended for the duration of World War One without ever...

  8. How early could we get interplanetary spaceflight?

    With a PoD after 1900, how early could we get large-scale interplanetary spaceflight? Supposing people generally supported it, what sort of scientific discoveries and technological development are necessary for it to be technologically and economically doable? And how can we get that public...

  9. WI 1945 UK election delayed till the fall?

    Hardly any British politician wanted an immediate general election after the defeat of Germany. Churchill wanted to continue the all-party coalition war government until the defeat of Japan; while hardly anyone wanted such a blank check, Attlee and many other politicians argued to wait the...

  10. WI Jefferson Davis killed in Seven Days battle?

    On the first day of the "Seven Days" battle that drove back McClellan from Richmond - June 25, 1862 - President Jefferson Davis rode out to see the fighting. Lee rebuked him, saying "Any exposure of a life like yours is wrong"; a few moments later, a soldier nearby was killed by a Union shell...

  11. AHC: USS Constitution sees action

    With any PoD after 1900, have the USS Constitution - the same wooden-hulled sail-powered USS Constitution as iOTL - see action in a war. Bonus points if it survives. Even more bonus points if it can somehow have a notable impact on the war. Right now, I'm thinking of a British-led invasion of...

  12. WI Bush killed on 9/11?

    September 11, 2001, another timeline: Instead of striking at the Pentagon, the hijacked American Airlines flight 77 crashes into the White House - where, thanks to a change in his schedule, President Bush is present, and dies in the attacks. What effects will this on America? President Bush...

  13. WI Bonhoeffer survives WWII?

    Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a leader in the anti-Nazi "Confessing Church," was imprisoned by the Nazis for complicity in the July 20th assassination plot. However, for various reasons, he wasn't actually executed till 9 April 1945 - only a few weeks before the war ended. What if he survived...

  14. AHC: More US state splits succeed

    In OTL, only two US states have been formed from within existing states: Maine and West Virginia. However, there've been many, many more proposed state splits, from New York City to southern Oregon to eastern Tennessee to many more I haven't listed here. Each of these movements could have...

  15. WI Erie Canal never built?

    What if the New York state legislature never builds the Erie Canal? Suppose DeWitt Clinton, the canal's major promoter, loses his 1817 run for Governor, and thus the canal fails politically. How does that impact the economic development of the Midwest and of New York City? Does New York lose...

  16. Why might the British dominions each be given their own monarch?

    I'm writing a story set in a world where at least Canada and Ireland - and probably Australia and South Africa as well, but they haven't come into the story yet - have each been given independence with a scion of the British royal house as their monarch. The story's set around the 1920's, well...

  17. Best outcome for Poland after Fall of France?

    What would be the best plausible outcome for Poland in WWII, with a PoD after the Fall of France? How can they both not get all-but-annihilated by the Nazis, and not turn into a Soviet satellite? Unless the Soviet Union dramatically changes, it seems the only three ways to keep Poland from...

  18. Building the AH for Jo Walton's "Farthing" Trilogy

    Britain Falls Without Sealion: Building an AH TL for Jo Walton's "Farthing" Trilogy No, we don't need to rebuild Austria-Hungary there. ;) Fantasy author Jo Walton, several years ago, published an alternate history trilogy set in a collaborationist Britain in a world where the Nazis won WWII...

  19. Sally Hemings flees Jefferson, stays in France, and tells all

    Yesterday I read the 1998 Y-chromosome DNA report, which almost completely proves that Thomas Jefferson did father children with Sally Hemings. According to most of the contemporary reports (i.e. screeds by Jefferson's political enemies, along with the memoirs of Sally Hemings' son Madison...

  20. AHC: Destroy the Papacy

    How can the claims of the Bishop of Rome to the papacy - that is, to not merely be Bishop of Rome or Patriarch of the West, but to be preeminent over all churches wherever - be ended? Details: * There needs to actually be a Bishop of Rome who is not making this claim. Simply ending the line of...
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