civil war

the Spanish civil war took what is assumed to be from 500,000 to 1,000,000 lives. Many factions existed during the war, but the main two were the Fascists and the Republicans. Would it be possible to make this even more split? How so? I know this is a dark challenge, and I have no ill-will...

The people of the Confederacy saw political parties as an evil Yankee thing, so they never formed in its short existence. The south was pretty politically unified on most issues at the time, so I was wondering what Political Parties formed could be like. I feel like the biggest issue would be...

Doing a research i read in wikipedia that ''As one of the final attempts at compromise to avoid the Civil War, in December 1860, a U.S. House of Representatives committee proposed to admit New Mexico as a slave state immediately. Although the measure was approved by the committee on December 29...

While I was browsing Wikipedia, I read that one of Philip K Dick's main inspirations for his novel Man in the High Castle was Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee. In some ways, they aren't really that different, both are a classic take on a popular WI scenario leading to a world on the brink of war...

It's no surprise that after WWII, Japan was in bad shape and that the US took upon itself to rebuild it yet was having issues with the economy and of course was subjected to Cold War politics regarding purging communists and socialists and bolstering conservative and capitalist forces to support...

(I in no way support neo-confederacy or anything of the sort, just had an interesting idea) The Rising Sun State Alternate History of the State of Arizona The point of divergence begins after the end of the American Civil War in 1865. After the war ended many former Confederates moved west to...

Was James Wolfe Ripley correct that the Union army needed more basic muzzleloading rifle-muskets more than rapid fire breachloaders like the Sharps, Henry, and Spencer rifles? The U. S. Army being so small, only 16,000 effectives,certainly meant that any experienced cadre the U. S. Had was...

An Ode to New Jersey A Patriotic Exercise\TL by LuckyLuciano Last night, in addition to the regular votes cast for president, senator and representative, voters across New Jersey’s southern counties had a special proposition on their ballot. The culmination of years of work on the part of the...

Chapter I: Tough times call for tough measures The meeting of the Confederate Cabinet on 18 December 1864 was unusually heated. The main topic of discussion was General John Bell Hood's dispatch of the previous day, which reported the defeat of the Army of Tennessee at the gates of Nashville...

The Mining Act of 1872 established American citizens' right to stake mineral claims on the public domain - something that had previously been ambiguous-to-illegal on the federal level despite a few decades' worth of gold rushes in the West. Recently I've come across suggestions in a few sources...

Basically, what if the anarchists against all odds won the spanish civil war, what would it look like? What would Spain, or maybe even Catalonia look like?

If he was President and the Civil War went basically the same as OTL (A bit ASB but still), how would McClellan be ranked. How would he handle Reconstruction?

And Then Came Spoons The wild & almost true story of Benjamin Butler Hello reader, and welcome to "And Then Came Spoons", the story of Benjamin Butler, or a fake version of Benjamin Butler. Some civil war nerds may recognize the name, but for those who don't know, I will give a brief...

I have some sort of interest about US history despite not being American, especially in the period of the Civil War. Most of it developed after watching some movies but any attention is good attention am I right guys? Anyway... I was thinking about it. The South had a lot of influence on the...

One might remember that during the 1840s, there was growing debate over the idea that America would under go a civil war caused by the debate over slavery. However, such fears didn't come to pass when the middle and lower class southern farmers began to rally in opposition to the unfair...

This is a scenario I would like to explore after watching Alternate History Hub's video on the subject. The summery is that before the American Civil war a bill to divide most of Southern California into the new "Territory of Colorado" almost passed but was ignored due to the secession crisis...

Suppose Jefferson Davis had rejected the offer of being the president of the confederate states of America. Instead, he preferred to be General in the confederate army, particularly the rank of General in chief of the confederate army. Still, He was willing to be posted where ever the...

Here is some art I made inspired by the short AH story "No Spot of Ground" by Walter Jon Williams. The POD of which is that Edgar Allan Poe does not die as he did in OTL and goes on to be a Confederate general in the ACW. I'm thinking of making him a character in an ASB TL I've had planned for...

This might just be a piece of off-topic ban-bait induced by an unbalanced media diet of American history documentaries and The Good Place, but hear me out. When would be the ideal time to have the American Civil War, from the perspective of reducing human suffering? On the one hand; slavery...

Well, you are welcome to my new thread. (I hope this is finally the one I can finish). I have done my research for this first chapter and I have checked numerous sites. Such as the American battlefield trust, Britannica and Wikipedia. I have also checked numerous books about the civil war. So I...