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  1. AH Challenge: McCain Presidency 2012-17 after Dean Presidency

    There's no dean scream here folks, he wins it and takes the White House by storm. His foreign policy is unprecedented, and so are his domestic policies for an entire eight years. Then McCain swoops in with his own agenda just as Islamic extremist terrorism is bearing its ugly head once again in...

  2. Carter-King: The Second American Revolution

    I’m wondering if this scenario has ever been explored. It’s rather utopian. I’d appreciate if anyone would like to brainstorm with me or even make this into a timeline. I’ll consider anything that comes out of this thread as a collaborative effort. The world this is for has already seen major...

  3. The Falcon Cannot Hear: The Second American Civil War 1937-1944; by Ephraim Ben Raphael

    Most recent discussion thread (with link to the original) Post-war borders, 1952 by Zek Sora The Falcon Cannot Hear: The Second American Civil War 1937-1944 by Ephraim Ben Raphael "Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre...

  4. Tragedy Precedes Triumph: Rochambeau Defeated at Newport, 1780

    Tragedy Precedes Triumph Rochambeau Defeated at Newport, 1780 On July 11, 1780, Jean-Baptiste Donatein de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau disembarked from his convoy in Newport Harbor with 5,500 soldiers under his command. In his opinion, the situation of the American colonies had become very grim...

  5. WI solar superstorm in 2012

    WI the coronal mass ejection of 2012 had erupted a week earlier, on July 16th? It causes a solar superstorm on the scale of the 1859 Carrington Event worldwide. The communication satellite network is knocked out, maybe for good, and public electric systems worldwide fail, leading to blackouts...

  6. An Alternate Buddha in India, 6th Century BCE

    Studying the religious and secular history of ancient India, it seems like the 6th century BCE was a time of growth in the Ganges watershed. Population, wealth, technology, all were making advances throughout the last couple centuries, and in the 6th century it seems these developments pushed...

  7. In the World of Sorrows: What if Assyria had sacked Jerusalem in 701 BCE?

    IN THE WORLD OF SORROWS What if Assyria had sacked Jerusalem in 701 BCE? Sennacherib, the mighty king, king of the country of Assyria, sitting on the throne of judgment, at the entrance of the city of Jerusalem, saying: "I give permission for its slaughter." The Assyrian army lays siege...

  8. President Jefferson's Gamble: Slavery Prohibited in the Louisiana Territory

    IOTL October 20, 1803 the US Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase Treaty with a vote of twenty-four to seven. There was worry that Napoleon would revoke his offer if they waited too long to approve it, and that thereby the United States of America would lose this miraculous opportunity to...

  9. A surviving Kingdom of Italy in the 10th century

    What if, instead of King Otto I of Germany taking the Italian throne and creating the Holy Roman Empire, the native dynasty retains power? The expedition was successful. By taking Italy, King Otto I of Germany established the Holy Roman Empire. The Point-of-Divergence is this: during Berengar...

  10. René Descartes invents calculus, joins empiricists, lives longer and more

    René Descartes I've been on a Descartes kick for the last few days and have been reading several of his works. I found it sad that his theories, which came to be known as Rationalism, were considered an opposing branch of science to the experimental methods being developed by Francis Bacon and...

  11. An Alternate Whiskey Rebellion

    AN ALTERNATE WHISKEY REBELLION How successful could the rebels have been? ----- "Someone's barn goes up in flames on a moonless night. Ink runs down an official document soaked in alcohol. A lonely victim jogs, panting and pursued, down a dirt track. Hoisted up a pole, a homemade flag hangs...

  12. Cortés kills Narváez at Veracruz, 1520

    What if the great conquistador Hernán Cortés decides to kill Pánfilo de Narváez when he defeats him at Cēmpoalātl (Cempoala) in May 1520, instead of taking him prisoner? Here is the original discussion thread... After a successful night ambush, Cortés captures Narváez and is overcome with...

  13. White American Theocracy

    What would be the best series of events to make the United States of America a real theocracy? I'm just thinking about how bad it could really get. Militarist, heavily influenced by evangelical churches, white-supremacist, lots of HUAC-like organs to purge the country of "dangerous" and...

  14. A Different Joseph Smith?

    In this thread, postulate on either A) a different Joseph Smith who has different viewpoints and has a different religious career (or a different career altogether) or B) a different American religious figure in the early 1800s that replaces Joseph Smith and creates a different religion that...

  15. WI The Columbian Expedition was a complete failure?

    Ferdinand and Isabella really didn't expect him to return anyway. Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the the West Indies happens as IOTL. The Santa Maria runs aground on the northern coast of Hispaniola and later Columbus decides to leave 39 men there to found the first Spanish colony La...

  16. Space tech: Nuclear power off-Earth?

    Were there ever any plans to provide a space station, moonbase or Mars base with nuclear power? I know that both the American and Soviet space programs were planning on building nuclear rockets, especially for interplanetary voyages, but do we know of whether they were planning on putting...

  17. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) timeline

    I just watched the older black-and-white version for my film history class. It was surprisingly engaging! I loved it. I guess I'm a sucker for Christian allegory in science fiction. Warning: This thread will feature heavy spoilers! It's October 1951 and in the last few days shocking events have...

  18. Can the Japanese Get Luckier in the Pacific War?

    I mean, of course they could. Yellowstone could go off and cripple the Americans in 1942, for example. But, what I'm saying is, could the Japanese have been more successful than they were without stretching believability to the requirement of Alien Space Bats? One stroke of good luck would have...

  19. Even Better Japanese Performance in the RJW?

    I'm reading a couple books right now on the Russo-Japanese War and it seems to me that the Japanese military was very lucky. That first strike against Port Arthur was a crucial maneuver that, had it gone wrong for whatever reason, would have crippled the Japanese military right from the...

  20. Technocratic colonization of North America

    A weird idea I had recently. What if the British Commonwealth was able to survive and the Glorious Restoration was avoided, thus leading to an increasingly Calvinist Anglican Church? The first result is that the Puritans stay in England instead of leaving for the American colonies. The second...
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