america

The Great Oops September 26th, a bit after midnight Moscow time, a Soviet missile detection system on the outside of the city malfunctioned, claiming that the US had launched 5 missiles. The officer there, Stanislav Petrov, was unsure about the small number of missiles, but tensions had been...

A Soviet soldier watching forced laborers near Athens clearing debris. Local communist officials helped run the Greek capital for the Soviets before the liberation of Greece. Many Athenian writers, singers, professors, and others in similar professions were purged by the NKVD and dumped into...

Chapter 1: The Republic Could Not be Kept The Battle of Saratoga was the high-point for the Continental Army The devastating, decade-long War for Independence proved an immense struggle for the fledgling United States, devastating much of the nation and bringing the disorganized “Confederate...

Revisiting a past idea I had floated , I am intrigued by just how "Roman" the founders of the u.s tried to make it . What if the Founders had gone in fully wit their Roman fanfare and also paranoia of centralised authority, and adopted a more decentralised system. Here's my timeline: The...

An American citizen relative by close affinity or consanguinity of the British Monarch or PM runs for President, would his rival use this connections against him or would he or she be disqualified?

I've been learning more about the American revolution and the reasons why 13 colonies chose to form the United States, and why some other colonies chose not to join this new union. This made me ponder who the United States would develop if other colonies such as Nova Scotia or the Floridas...

Reading into the history of Maryland, I find the original purpose of the colony quite interesting, as it was meant to be a haven for Catholics and religious toleration. In OTL this did not last long and the colony was quickly overtaken by various protestant groups. This I believe was in part due...

It feels like there are many patterns that seem to repeat infinitely among America timelines. Events that occur or have their analogues in most timelines concerning the United States. Absences of such an event rarely occurs unless said absence is the divergence. I am also guilty of this...

Was working on a simple alt hist idea with a friend and am new to this sort of thing and wanted to see if there was any interesting ideas here. Main points of divergence are: 1. The Articles of Confederation fail. There are two many differences between the states and they simply can't...

As we know, USA and British relations got off on a rocky start. After independence, America still had heavy ties to Britain. But during the War of 1812, Britain and America fought one another for Canada. A common misconception I’ve seen some people say, is that Britain intended to reconquer...

What if for some reason America was interested with the lobby of some corporations and back to Africa organizations or something to rule the heart of darkness with the empires of Europe just letting this teenager of a nation to have its way as long they get to have business. With the main change...

I'm curious what the television and film landscapes in America and Canada would look like with some big changes. What would happen to TV if for some reason, crime dramas/police shows massively flopped after the 60s? Also, what would happen if anime and tokusatsu was somewhat more popular than...

This is inspired by google earth, which I have found provide a fascinating insight into other countries. The challenge here is to give as many countries as possible the same “format” that the United States and to a lesser extent Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have in their urbanized areas...

Let's suppose Portugal manages to enter a personal union with Leon instead of what happened in OTL. I won't discuss how plausible this scenario is. I'm more curious to know about what would happen specifically during the Age of Discovery and the colonization of America. Here is a map to what I...

This is my first ever attempt at making a TL about American history, so any advices and constructive criticism are welcome. Horatio Seymour (Democratic, 1861-1865) Stephen A. Douglas had experienced poor health throughout his life, which greatly deteriorated after he narrowly lost the...

I suppose this is kind of a general question but considering the immense amount of American third party candidates that tried to run for president, I just want to know. Which third party presidential candidate from the past century actually succeeding and becoming president (however unlikely...

The POD is that Lincoln chooses a more competent Democratic VP rather than Johnson in 1864, most optimally Joseph Holt or John A. Dix. Instead of failing disastrously like IOTL Johnson with his Ring Around the Circle, Holt/Dix was successful at gathering support for the National Union Party...

Might be a far stretch, but how could America fall to revolution in 1968? Specifically one spearheaded by the New Left and other activist forces, as well as civil rights activists, militant groups like the Black Panthers, etc? What would a New Left America look like? I realize the scenario is...

Okay, so as an American, I have always considered our country's greatest foundational hypocrisy to be slavery. I consider the Native American Genocide to be the greater crime, but slavery is our greatest hypocrisy. Now, I don't want to go into a rant about it, but I don't really feel like I...

Let's say that new Brunswick joins the American revolution. Could be that British taxes are just that little bit worse, or red coat actions shock the people to the point where they send delegates to the continental congress. Now, I'm fully aware that fear of British reprisal was strong and that...