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  1. The Second Act of Aaron Burr

    Aaron Burr's killing of Alexander Hamilton resulted in charges of murder which were (eventually) beaten, and Burr's strange adventure in the West that ended in (eventually beaten) treason charges. Before his treasonous adventure Burr toured the West and was widely popular, with some newspaper...

  2. What-if Lloyd-George abandoned the war-time coalition before the '18 elections?

    The 1918 general election was a massive victory for the war-time coalition of David Lloyd George's National Liberals and Andrew Bonar Law's Torys. The Tory's dominated that coalition however, owing to a split in the Liberal Party between Asquith and Lloyd-George supporters. The war-time...

  3. Mahmud II is killed; The end of the Eastern Question

    Mahmud II dying in 1807- I think that if the Ottoman Empire falls apart prior to the Congress of Vienna, that is the only realistic POD that would avoid some of the subsequent bloodshed in that region. With the end of the House of Osman, the Serbs might be able to grab a large section of the...

  4. Chinese Rites continued: The Triumph of Jesuit Catholicism

    http://books.google.com/books?id=hT44DTMNxvwC&dq=next+christendom+kongo&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&sig=ACfU3U3nxTpLKMqxwn2FKWsqNBwxPb93mQ&q=kongo#PPA33,M1 So Catholicism had made significant strides from the 15th (baptism of Kongo's King) to the 17th (Chinese Rite gains popularity in China) centuries...

  5. The Heavy Plough- Rome's Answer?

    The heavy plough needs to be invented to allow the more intensive settlement of Britain, Germany, etc. If its invented during the Early Empire, then it would allow the continued territorial expansion of the Roman Empire across the Northern European Plain. In any case, its invention and spread...

  6. Roman Commerical Revolution

    Inspired by the "Earlier Industrial Revolution" thread, I dug up the Roman Commercial Revolution thread from SHWI. This is courtesy of blair3@tcnj.edu who is a member of SHWI. I command copied this post out of SHWI. I was reading The Supply and Use of Money in the Roman World, 200 BC to 300...

  7. Orangists, Patriots, and European War

    In 1785 in the Netherlands there was a short civil war between the Orangists, those who wanted statholder William V of Orange to hold more power, and the Patriots, who favored continuing Dutch democratic traditions. The uprising was crushed by a combination of British support of Orange and a...

  8. In the Land of Milk and Honey

    Damascus (occupied by the Kingdom of Jerusalem) December 1129 King Baldwin II walked into the make-shift interrogation chamber. An Arab was hanging from the ceiling, his arms twisted too far the wrong way behind his back. The questioner and a Templar knight were already in the...

  9. Timeline Sneak-peek: In the Land of Milk and Honey (working title)

    The hall rang with laughter and the sound of clinking cups. Some of Baldwin II's Armenian knights were howling a drinking song, competing with Fulk's Angevins. Baldwin and Fulk surveyed the scene from the raised dias, Fulk leaning over to speak to Baldwin, "Do you have any idea what...

  10. American expansion of NATO

    So I was recently listening to how NATO is undergoing some rather extreme pressures because of the situation in Afghanistan, and the report went on about the lack of commitment from certain European members, putting caveats on where their troops could serve and so on. It got me to thinking...

  11. Early Crusades

    Quote: Originally Posted by Midgard There was sufficient talk about a Crusade around 830s or so in OTL, after the Muslims inflicted a major defeat on Emperor Theophilus. Of course, we know that it came to nothing, and that the Empire managed to not only...

  12. Manzikert: Fluke or Fate?

    So I'm wondering whether or not Manzikert was fated. By that I mean, was the aftermath of the defeat, the hollowing out of Anatolia, caused by the military defeat, or was it demographic trends that had finally reached a tipping point? I have read that aristocrats in Anatolia had been clearing...

  13. Thomas Edison and Electric Cars

    So I was in my Environmental Science Class today discussing the move "Who killed the Electric Car?" a movie about the rise and fall of electric cars in California. That power companies would benefit from this was briefly discussed, and my (alternate history addled) mind immediately jumped to...

  14. WI- Later American Civil War?

    So there was a post in a post-1900 about how to get more tanks involved in WWI. And I proposed that maybe if you had a later American Civil War, you could have the tank developed several decades earlier. Which led me to think about the technology that such a later war could bring into use. So...

  15. The Entente Alone: A different conclusin to WWI

    So there are a few Central Powers win WWI going on right now, so I thought I'd throw this into the ring, see if there are any takers. I'm of the belief that even if the Americans didn't intervene in WWI, the Entente would still win the war, perhaps even more completely then OTL. IMO the...

  16. The '19 Revolution

    So the POD is right here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=77915&highlight=central+powers+victory My question specifically what would happen to France in the aftermath of losing World War I. There are going to be two immediate options, either the Republic survives...

  17. Acting President-Elect Huey Long

    I read this a long time ago, and thought that this was one of the coolest timeline seeds I'd ever seen. So here it is in its entirety. This entire post is the work of President Chester A. Arthur, the anti-Rutherford Hayes Howdy. I've been reading T. Harry Williams' Huey Long. Huey Long...

  18. Franz Josef, Maximilian, and Hapsburg Liberalism

    Franz Josef was the long-lived head of the House of Hapsburg, whose reign saw the Austrian Empire fall from one of the pre-eminent European Great Powers into a fracturing multi-ethnic cockpit. His brother Maximilian was a liberal guy, who may have been able to use liberal solutions to solve...

  19. American Bourbons: The Spanish Bourbons flee Spain for the Americas

    The Mexico without Santa Anna thread made me think of another idea which has probably been done before . . . but whatever. The Portugese Royal Family fled Portugal and lived in Brazil for much of the Peninsular War. When they left, Pedro, a son of the King of Portugal, was left as regent of...

  20. A little help goes a Long way

    So, I have this timeline that I have been working on, and I'm looking for some books so that I can actually have this be a little accurate. So does anyone know of any books dealing with the Norman Kingdom of Sicily? Or the intellectual ferment in Iberia as the Muslim cities fell? I'm trying...
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