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  1. Challenge: different Compromise of 1850

    Your challenge if you choose to accept it is to come up with another version of the Compromise of 1850. It must not only resolve the issues of the day, but satisfy both the Northern Free States and the Southern Slave States. And it must either postpone or prevent the American Civil War from...

  2. The North wins in '61

    I've noticed that the majority of Civil War threads have to do with the South winning. So WI the North wins.... earlier? Say, after First Bull Run? There is no Emancipation Proclamation, no Gettysburg, no Gettysburg Address, no Lincoln Assassination, no Reconstruction, etc. What does this mean...

  3. Stalin attacking the west? WTF?

    http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/robert-conroy/red-inferno-1945.htm Shouldn't AH book publishers demand at least a Degree of plausibility from their authors? :confused:

  4. Beatles music in the world of Fatherland

    Those of you who have read Robert Harris' novel Fatherland might recall that The Beatles are mentioned as playing in Hamburg in this alternate 1964. (In the movie, the Fab Four can be seen on a poster in Berlin by which the protagonist strolls.) Since, in that scenario, Great Britain surrendered...

  5. WWI after the FAILURE of the Unmentionable Sea-Mammal

    The census among members of this board, as well as among historians, is that Operation Sea Lion (I can hear the collective groan) would have been a massive failure and possibly doomed the Nazis. I am not going to debate that, or attempt to construct a Nazi-victory scenario. What I will do...

  6. We didn't start the Fire refers to alternate events.

    The idea here is to keep the lyrics to Billy Joel's We didn't start Fire the exact same, but have them refer to different events. Feel free to contribute, but only as long as you know the words! Harry Truman- first openly gay US politician to get elected President. Doris Day- actress who was...

  7. Potential ARW PODs (timelines, please!!!!)

    (Inspired by the ARW thread in the book section. The point of this thread is to inspire all you timeline writers out there to get busy! :cool:) What do you think is the earliest possible non ASB chance/date/missed opportunity timeframe for the Colonists to win the Revolution? One of the...

  8. Written Native American language?

    This may seem kind of broad, but WI the majority of the native peoples of North and South America had managed to develop written languages prior to the arrival of Europeans? Would relations between them and Europeans/descendants of Europeans have been better? Say the NA's prior to 1492 have...

  9. Lee Retreats.

    On April 3rd, 1865, after abandoning Richmond and Petersburg, the Army of Northern Virginia rendezvoused at Amelia Courthouse, about 30 miles southwest of Richmond. There they expected to find rations, which were ordered by Lee to meet the army there, and an open road into North Carolina, having...

  10. AH Challenge: Wyoming

    With a POD AFTER 1900, make a scenario in which Wyoming becomes the most heavily populated state in the Union in 2009. No ASBs, and the other 49 states must keep their OTL population numbers and rates.

  11. Wyoming AH Challenge

    With a POD after 1900, make Wyoming the most heavily populated state in the Union by 2009. Extra points if the other 49 states keep their OTL population numbers.

  12. DBWI: Europeans colonizing Asia instead of the other way around.

    What if, instead of masterful Chinese seamen seeing it as their duty to explore and enlighten the rest of the world, it had been EUROPEANS rounding the Cape of Storms and colonizing Asia? Would we still be living in this enlightened age? Or would we still be in the throes of chaos caused by the...

  13. New Gingrich/Forstchen "Active History"?

    I see that Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen are about to publish a novel called To Try Men's Souls. http://www.booksamillion.com/product/9780312591069?id=4500389411832 I was wondering if anyone knows whether this is an AH "Active History" novel, or if it is just a novel of OTL history. Does...

  14. DBWI: Murder Illegal.

    OOC: I am not advocating actual murder. But of course, you're not an idiot, so you already knew that. IC: Imagine a world in which you couldn't just brutally slaughter any person you felt like, any time you wanted to, any way you wanted to. Who'd want to live in that world? Wait a minute...

  15. The Coup Succeeds.

    How long would the USSR have survived if the attempt to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991 had succeeded? What role would a hardliner-ruled SU play in today's world?

  16. Guns of the South questions

    I was rereading Guns of the South again, and I wondered to myself exactly why HT had the book begin in 1864. This is one question in and of itself, but he refers several times in the book to Gettysburg and other events that happened prior to the beginning of the novel. So maybe that's the...

  17. Favorite TL-191 Book?

    I went with The Victorious Opposition. What's yours?

  18. Throw Away The Scabbard

    http://www.booklocker.com/books/4004.html I was just wondering if anyone has read this book. The premise of it is that Jackson survives Chancellorsville and invades the North with Lee in June of 1863. It's been done to death on these boards, but I've never seen it in a novel. What are your...

  19. My first attempt at a TL: Jamestown 1607

    A sort of TL I devised a while back in my first semester as a history major. POD----Suppose the London Company (later the Virginia Company) had the foresight to recognize that the colony they proposed to establish needed farmers, trappers, scouts, hunters, artisans, and soldiers more than they...

  20. DBWI: Bob Dylan COULDN'T sing

    What if "The King of Folk" couldn't carry a tune? If "Blowin' in the Wind" hadn't become the biggest selling single of all time, would we still have seen folk music overtake rock 'n' roll as the top selling music genre in the '80s? What would this have meant for the hippie movement? Without its...
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