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  1. The Dream Is Alive
    Threadmarks: I: Setting the Stage

    “The dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the reality of tomorrow.”-Robert Goddard I: Setting the Stage For NASA, the mid-1970s had represented a lessening of the activities and work that it had once been in the 1960s in the push of the Space Race. No longer was NASA constantly...

  2. On Your Side: A Tale of the Dukakis Administration

    Preface “DUKAKIS PICKS SENATOR GLENN OF OHIO, FORMER ASTRONAUT, FOR NO. 2 SPOT”-New York Times, 7/13/88 “... The announcement of Senator John Glenn came as no short surprise, with speculation having considered the Senator as one of the finalists. His moderate positions are arguably in line...

  3. The Happy Warrior Laid to Rest: A Vignette

    WASHINGTON D.C., April 19—President Hubert Horatio Humphrey was pronounced dead this morning, having died in his sleep following the announcement a little more than a week ago of his bladder cancer having gone terminal. President Humphrey had made it clear he would be resigning from office at...

  4. Timeline Sources

    Okay, so something I've started to notice a bit in the past is the possibility that as AH expands in terms of timelines and so on, there emerges into the issue of a 'lack of sources' for research for those that are new or for those that would wish to start a timeline. I'd imagine that presents...

  5. A Duty to be Done
    Threadmarks: I: Two Terms, Never Elected

    Credit to title-card goes to @Beata Beatrix I: Two Terms, Never Elected It was coming down to the wire, that was all for certain. Both Governor Jimmy Carter and President Gerald Ford looked upon the results coming in, and President Ford's rapid catchup since the conventions had done the duty...

  6. Bin Laden is Dead and GM is Alive: An Alternate 2010 Midterm TL
    Threadmarks: Opening

    “Welcome back, as we begin to look over the results of the 2010 midterms, opening up with the governor races' across the country. It is argued that the address by President Obama on the killing of Osama bin Laden on October 22nd played a pivotal part in the shifting of many races, but for now...

  7. TLIAW: No Horizon Too Far

    I On February 20th, 1962, Friendship 7, lifted off from Cape Canaveral sending John Glenn into orbit. In nearly five hours, he had launched into space, orbited it three times, and finally returned to Earth splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean. His launch found itself watched by millions, and...

  8. Vignette: The North Star of Vandenberg

    May 12th, 1991 Low Earth Orbit The spacecraft glistened as the first rays of light slowly began to brighten the vehicle from the darkness of which she swam in. The nose began to brighten up first, the black of the nose and gray of the tiles giving way to the white that enveloped the entire...

  9. Next Stop, St. George Terminal: A Public Transit TL

    Something I've been working on for a bit, that hopefully should interest you guys 1 The New York City Subway, ever since it had first started operating in 1904, had been in a period of constant expansion between the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit...

  10. Beyond Humanity's Cradle: An AH Vignette

    “Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.”-Konstantin Tsiolkovsky The Blue Marble. Earth. Home. It was but a mere term to describe the 'cradle' humanity resided in, and for the rest of the greater world that the 'cradle' resided in. It had been a mere two...

  11. Apollo's Final Farewell: An AH Vignette

    “If we die, we want people to accept it. We're in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.”-Gus Grissom The white rover drove across the surface, the cabin keeping the pair of astronauts enclosed...

  12. A Vision of Jupiter

    I “We will give NASA a new focus and vision for exploration... They [Meriwether Lewis and William Clark] made that journey in the spirit of discovery, to learn the potential of vast new territory, and to chart a way for others to follow... America has ventured forth into space for the same...

  13. TLIAW: A Goal in One

    I: The Beginnings of Organized Play (1906-1917) Football in the United States at the start of the 20th Century would find itself recovering after its downward orientation in the 1890s. A tour by the Pilgrims, an English-based football team, in 1905, would find the earnest for the sport to...

  14. WI: Grumman Acquired by Martin-Marietta?

    Right, as the premise says above, what if Grumman was acquired by Martin-Marietta rather than Northrop? Martin Marietta originally had a 1.9 billion dollar offer before Northrop began private discussions over acquiring Grumman, and eventually Grumman had to pay Martin for the merger with...

  15. The Long Track Ahead

    OOC: With thanks to Toixstory for the title of this timeline, and others for helping me with sketching/drafting stuff out and checking it so far. Here is the first chapter of "The Long Track Ahead". I: The Founding of Amtrak (1970-1973) The announcement of bankruptcy proceedings by Penn...

  16. TLIAW: The Smoke of the South

    OOC: Onwards! Towards the Smoke of the South, a 'timeline in a week' I want to do. Which will last most likely more than a day, and less than a week, :p ;) Part I “Do you not see the black smoke rising from the land of the Yankees? That is the indications of industry, and railroads...

  17. Greater the Union, Greater the Victory: A TL

    OOC: So yeah. Trying my hand at an alternate American Civil War timeline, with the POD being in the War of 1812. Here it begins. Preface “The Union forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah! Down with the traitors, up with the stars; While we rally around the flag, boys, rally once again, Shouting the...

  18. WI Ordnance of 1784 passes

    In a Thomas Jefferson biography I learned that the Ordinance of 1784 (which would have banned slavery of the version Thomas Jefferson supported) failed due to the sickness of the New Jersey represenative. What if he wasnt and it had passed by the vote banning slavery in all new territories and...

  19. DBWI Germany never went Communist

    As we all know the Cold War was one of the tensest periods of the world and still is. The collapse of W. France in 1964, has left the US with her group of nations fighting against the Workers' German Republics. So, what would have happened if Bismarck had done the original social reforms in the...
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