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  1. AHC: Southern Strategy considered a failure

    With a post-Watergate POD, your mission is not to prevent the GOP's Southern Strategy, but to get most commentators and GOP establishment officials to consider it a failure, not to be repeated after Nixon makes use of it.

  2. Politics of a united Virginia after the Civil War

    Let's say that after the Civil War started the Confederacy is quicker to occupy western Virginia - maybe the run-up to the war is longer and more drawn-out, with raids by the Virginia and Maryland militias into Pennsylvania to capture anyone they suspect of being an escaped slave (basically...

  3. Earliest America's military can be desegregated

    When is the earliest point at which the United States could desegregate its military? Is it plausible to do so in a scenario where the US gets involved in World War I early, leading to higher casualty rates, perhaps under a President less over-the-top racist than Woodrow Wilson? Perhaps a health...

  4. PC: Occupied Britain, island hopping campaign from Iceland to the Faeroes to Shetland to Scotland

    Just like it says on the tin. Lets say that someone other than the usual suspects pulls a sealion- perhaps a fascist France that gets monumentally lucky and manages to score some hits against the Royal Navy. How likely is it that the Commonwealth and whoever Britain is allied with could mount an...

  5. WI: the Troubles continued into the 21st century, effect of 9/11 on Americans view of the IRA

    There's a stereotype - I don't know how true it is - that the main form of funding for the IRA and various other Irish Republican groups came from Irish pubs in Boston. It's certainly true that figures such as Congressman Pete King stayed with people connected to the IRA when he stayed in...

  6. AHC: Revolutionary Austria, France tries to set things the way they were

    Reverse of OTL. A continent-wide revolution and conflagration is begun by Austria, while France's ambassador is the one trying to put things back the way they used to be, a-la Metternich

  7. WI: Britain captures New France during the War of the Spanish Succession

    Just like it says on the tin. lets assume that the weather was clearer when the fleet under the command of Admiral Walker sail into the St. Lawrence, allowing them to sail to Quebec while the colonists and a handful of regulars under the command of Francis Nicholson continue through the St...

  8. WI: Hapsburgs stay in Germany, effects on HRE, Reformation

    Let's assume the same POD as my previous post about the Trastamaras retaining Spain. Infante Juan, Prince of Asturias, survives to adulthood and has children of his own, Charles V never inherits his massive empire, Spain keeps the New World gold and silver and uses it to fund a conquest of North...

  9. WI: Trastamaras retain Spain, Hapsburgs stay in Germany

    Suppose Infante Juan, Prince of Asturias survived to have children of his own, meaning the Hapsburgs never take Spain. How does this effect the rest of Europe?

  10. WI: Peace Dem wins in 1864, Atlanta and Savanna, and Columbia still fall.

    Let's say that the Tennessee Campaign takes longer than OTL, and so the Siege of Atlanta begins a few weeks later than OTL. Consequently the Democrats nominate a Peace Dem like George Pendleton for the top of the ticket and then go on to narrowly win the election. However, only two days later...

  11. AHC: Less severe Jim Crow that ends earlier

    How might this transpire? Is it possible that the Populists, who attempted a coalition in North Carolina between the poor whites and blacks in that state, to succeed elsewhere? Obviously keeping Woodrow Wilson out of the White House is a must. Are there any other things that may have happened...

  12. FDR dies on the eve of D-Day

    Just like it says on the tin. FDR dies of a heart attack the morning of June 5th, 1944. From now on every movie about D-Day will include a scene where news of his death spreads among the men, followed by someone, probably Eisenhower, reading a message from newly-inaugurated President Henry...

  13. Fate of a defeated Russia and France in a shortened WWI without the UK

    The scenario is thus: Germany decides that its tiny tiny border with France is more than enough to hold off the French army while they deal with Russia. Things go sideways in Russia with the greater part of the Heer on Russian soil coordinating with the Austrians and Turks. Nicky surrenders when...

  14. WI: US adopts Semi-Presidential system after Civil War

    Let's say that Abraham Lincoln is assassinated a few months early, in late March of 1865. Thus Congress has an extra few months of wrangling with Andrew Johnson, giving them plenty of reason to want to limit the power of the President and emboldening angry radical republicans. Thus the text of...

  15. WI: Bobby Kennedy survives 1968, gets elected in 1976

    Just like it says on the tin. Sirhan Sirhan stumbles while shooting Senator Kennedy, shooting him in the shoulder but missing any major artery. The Senator is rushed to a nearby hospital where he is stabilized. A few days later when he is well enough he visits his would-be assassin in prison and...

  16. AHC: Keep West Virginia Blue

    Your challenge is to keep West Virginia as solidly Democratic as it was throughout the 20th century right up to today. What does this take? Would a prescient WV legislature promoting tourism in what is really an astonishingly beautiful state boost the economy, particularly with DC, Philadelphia...

  17. Fate of North America if the US broke up sans 1787 Constitution

    Just like it says on the tin. If the United States broke up after a failed constitutional Convention, what might have happened to the rest of the continent? Would the British swoop in and seize the Old Northwest, perhaps grabbing the sparsely-populated northern reaches of Luisiana as well? Would...

  18. WI: US has an Executive Council instead of a President

    Just like it says on the tin. Because plenty of people say that the Founding Fathers created the Presidency under the assumption that George Washington would be the first President, let's say that a stray bullet kills him at Yorktown. He is hailed as an American Moses, bringing his people to the...

  19. PC: Incas survive, trade silver with China through English middlemen

    Inspired by another thread about a possible Inca Meiji. Would it be a possibility? The conquest of the Inca took place around the same time as the King's Great Matter, so odds are if Catherine of Aragon still doesn't pop out a boy and the Holy Roman Emperor still threatens to sack Rome if the...

  20. WI: German reunification despite opposition of UK, France, US, USSR

    Say it's 1989. The Soviet economy is stronger, but not strong enough to maintain the Warsaw Pact. The Soviets are seen as a big enough threat to preclude the expansion of NATO, but not strong enough to go all Prague Spring on dissenting member states. As a result, the Warsaw Pact is in shambles...
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