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  1. Second American Civil War in 1877?

    Reading about the election of 1876, I was surprised to see that there was talk of another secession/some form of violence to push a Democratic victory by force if Tilden was not declared the winner. Without the Compromise of 1877, could this situation have actually spiraled into another Civil...

  2. Effect on America of a long participation in WWI ending in defeat?

    Let's say that America gets involved in some atl version of WWI quite early in the game; it has a lot of troops deployed and they're seeing years of sustained combat. Handwaving away the precise way that this happens, let's say that the alt-Entente loses the war; its forces are defeated on the...

  3. DBAHC: England wins the Second Anglo-Frankish War

    The war between the Kingdom of England and the Frankish Empire was one of the most brutal wars of all time; English atrocities have become infamous as they tried to fully subjugate the Franks to their power. Ultimately, of course, the Frankish hold on much of Europe gave them the resources to...

  4. Impact on American psyche of a lost conventional war

    Say, for whatever reason, that the US gets in a war with another great power that it loses fair and square- army outfought, navy sunk, serious influence lost. The US isn't conquered, but it might lose some outlying territory and geopolitical influence- certainly its ability to project power...

  5. Nuclear war limited to Europe: what about the rest of the world?

    Say that, for whatever reason you want, two Europe-based nuclear powers with hegemony over half of the continent each go to war. In the resulting nuclear exchange every major European city is hit but very little outside Europe is nuked. How would the rest of the world react? What interactions...

  6. DBAHC: Prevent the decline of Prussia

    Prussia rose high and fell hard. What was in its heyday a great power of Europe is now just another constituent kingdom of the German Federal Empire. The Prussians reached great heights under Frederick the Great, only to be smacked down by Napoleon. Although Napoleon was defeated, Prussia would...

  7. DBWI: Jack Kirby leaves Marvel in 1970?

    Well, I just got out of the theatre after seeing Avengers: Endgame, and I have to say, it deserves the praise it's getting. It was a perfect ending for so many characters- Captain America, Iron Man, Thor- but perhaps none moreso than the film's villain, and the big bad of the entire MCU thus...

  8. DBAHC: Switch the fates of Russia and France in the Great War

    The Great War ultimately ended in a victory for the Entente powers. The German army, despite its advances into Poland, was ground down by superior Russian numbers and production capacity. Ultimately the Russians broke the back of Austria-Hungary in 1918, resulting in Germany's surrender as...

  9. KRDBWI: Thoughts on the Long-Hohenzollern wedding?

    Well, it finally happened. Yesterday, in Berlin, Fiona Long, daughter of the President, married Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, as part of a detente between Germany and America. This has huge implications for the self-identification of America; with this royal marriage, experts are...

  10. DBWI: Thoughts on "The Death of Napoleon?"

    "The Death of Napoleon" was definitely one of my favorite movies of the year. It's a satirical history film, dealing with the power struggle for the regency of the French Empire following the death of Napoleon I in 1827. It pokes fun at figures such as Talleyrand, Marshall Davout, the Empress...

  11. DBWI: Kerensky lives?

    In hindsight, it's easy to see the assassination of President Alexander Kerensky on January 5, 1936 as one of the greatest catastrophes in Russian history. Boris Savinkov's National Republican movement would emerge from the chaos in complete control of Russia, converting the country into a...

  12. DBWI: RIP Anne Frank

    Sad news today as Anne Frank, acclaimed writer, activist, and Holocaust survivor, died at the age of 89. I don't really know anyone who hasn't been touched by her work in some way, be it kids reading her various novels, activists inspired by her words, or historians for whom her diary provides...

  13. KRDBWI: Declassified FBI documents prove Long assassination done by government

    So, a few days after this has happened I think we can say this is real. Declassified FBI documents have revealed that President Charles Curtis and Jack Reed did indeed have Huey Long assassinated in order to prevent civil war and break the back of the America First movement. The conspiracy...

  14. DBWI: Rome survives the Collapse of the Third Century?

    The collapse of the Roman Empire was one of the most decisive events in history. In only a few decades what had once ruled the Medditerranean had been reduced to Italia by invasions from the Sassanids and Goths and the independence of the Gallic Empire of Postumus. The world would never be the...

  15. DBWI: No Christopher Nolan Captain America films?

    Christopher Nolan's Captain America trilogy had a massive impact on both film and superheroes. Before these movies, superheroes were thought of as entirely for kids, however Nolan gave us a complex, interesting trilogy that explored the themes of patriotism, freedom vs security, loyalty to one's...

  16. DBWI: "A Song of Sun and Moon" not a space opera?

    So George R.R. Martin's excellent series deconstructing the space opera genre has of course met with a lot of success. The story of civil war in the Galactic Empire incorporates a lot of politics and military strategy, while keeping some traditional sci-fi elements, like droids. It also has...

  17. DBAHC: Screw Arab world post Ottomans?

    As we all know, the Arab world today is stable under the rule of the Hashemite Empire, a prosperous Constitutional Monarchy that maintains a sphere of influence throughout the Middle East. If we consider the facts, however, we can count ourselves extremely lucky that the Hashemites so...

  18. DBAHC: China screw?

    It was arguably inevitable that the Chinese Empire would become the most powerful nation the world has ever seen; with its abundant resources and massive population, once the industrial revolution hit there was no stopping the Qing. As ASB as it might seem, though, what if history had gone in...

  19. DBWI: Western Rome collapses during the Crisis of the Fifth Century?

    The Crisis of the Fifth Century was a transformative time for Rome, to be sure. It saw, after all, the official political division of West and East. Rome was faced with many threats, from the Huns to the Barbarians to the Sassanids. Against all odds, however, it survived and was transformed...

  20. German-Sassanid alliance?

    So I've been reading more and more Roman history lately, and it seems to me that if the Sassanid Empire and the Germans coordinated their assaults on Rome, they would have been able to defeat the Empire? Why didn't they do this in OTL? Were they not in contact? Also, would this have actually...
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