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  1. Puerto Rico Stays Spanish

    Suppose the Spanish-American War does not take place, for one reason or another. What might be the long-term effects on Puerto Rico if it remains Spanish past 1898? Will it eventually become independent or might it continue to be part of Spain up to the present? What differences might result in...

  2. WI: No Italian Libya

    With Libya so much in the news lately, I got to thinking: the Italo-Turkish War (which began 100 years ago this September) is one of those not-all-that-long-ago major historical events that no one today seems to think about much. But suppose it never took place (perhaps a different Italian...

  3. Portuguese Congo: Effects on Portugal?

    I seem to remember once seeing a thread on here (one the Search function doesn't feel like finding right now) speculating that if King Leopold had not gotten his hands on the Congo, Portugal was the colonial power most likely to get it. So, suppose Portugal gets an African colony that is...

  4. WI: No Chicago Fire

    How would the city have developed if the great fire of 1871 had never happened?

  5. WI Lenin Survives Another Decade?

    Vladimir Lenin died at a rather young age (53). WI, through various POD's (I'm not sure what all would be required), his health is better and he is able to live until 1934, ten years after he died IOTL? What effects would this have on the development of the Soviet Union? What would happen to...

  6. Under the Eagle Flag 2.0: An Alternate History of the World, 1821-2010

    Prologue: September 20, 2010 “Good evening. This is Radio Columbia. Today in New York City, the Premier gave a major address on economic policy in advance of the upcoming Federal elections. In particular, he urged the Federal Congress to approve the government’s proposal to close tax...

  7. Ask Me About My Alternate Universe...

    ...in which I blatantly rip off Hominid's idea. The premise: I've been transported to OTL from an ATL. Ask me about it.

  8. The Alteration

    Has anyone ever read The Alteration by Kingsley Amis? It sounds very intriguing if rather ASBish. And I'm always in favor of AH novels that are actually thinly-veiled commentaries/satires on real-life politics, which is kind of what this sounds like. The only reason I found out about it is I...

  9. For Want of a Sturdy Collar, an Irishman, and a Butcher

    I posted this in the "Underused PODs" thread, and I'd like to see it get discussed. On Feb. 18, 1853 Hungarian nationalist Janos Libenyi attempted to assassinate Emperor Franz Joseph by stabbing him. The sturdy collar on the Emperor's uniform deflected the full force of the blow, and Libenyi was...

  10. Philosophy WI: No Kant

    Like it says. How might Western philosophy have developed if Immanuel Kant died in the cradle? Inspired by this thread, sort of.

  11. Indiana in your Timelines!

    Because everybody else is doing it! Also, I'm interested to see if there's any way to make Indiana more interesting.

  12. Luther--But No Calvin

    I was reading Max Weber's "Protestant Ethic" tonight, and I came across this comment: Now, I've seen what-if's about Luther being removed from history (there's that story about him narrowly avoiding being struck by lightning, for instance), but I don't recall seeing anything about Luther...

  13. British Watchmen?

    Crazy idea I just had... WI Alan Moore sets Watchmen in Britain instead of the USA? How would this change it? This probably requires a POD unrelated to the making of Watchmen itself though... EDIT: this probably should've gone in Books and Media. oops

  14. Under the Eagle Flag: My First Timeline

    Hey all, I've been kicking this timeline idea around in my mind since well before I even signed up at AH.com, and I finally decided to do it. The basic premise is that Augustin Iturbide makes some different decisions in 1822 and manages to survive a few more years as Emperor of Mexico. This...

  15. No Wilmington Coup: Effects for Civil Rights?

    I literally just learned about this event for the first time. In 1898 white supremacists in Wilmington, NC successfully overthrew the local government by force and carried out a massacre of the city's black residents. The replacement of the Republican-Populist government with a Democratic one...

  16. DBWI: First Black US President Will Visit CSA!

    ---BREAKING NEWS--- "...the White House has announced that Frederick DuBois Jr., the first black President of the United States, will make a state visit to the CSA later this year. This announcement ends months of speculation about the possibility for such a visit that began even before...

  17. Fitzpatrick's War

    Has anyone read this book? I really liked it and recently re-read it, though admittedly it has its flaws. PS: Sorry if there's already a thread on this book, but every time I type "fitzpatrick's war" into the search function it crashes. I can't help wondering if this is significant in some way...

  18. 1860 Election goes to the House

    Lots of alternate US Civil War scenarios out there, but I don't recall ever seeing this one. By my calculations, a candidate in 1860 needed 152 EV's to win, and Lincoln won with 180. Now, most of the states he won in, he won by quite a lot, but he only won New York (35 EV's) by 7 points...

  19. Earliest Possible Canadian Confederation?

    Seems like a good topic for Canada Day. Like the title says, what is the earliest that the original provinces could be united as a single self-governing entity?

  20. TL-191 DBWI: Confederates Reach Lake Erie

    (OOC: I'm new here, so I hope this is in the right forum and makes a modicum of sense) So the 68th anniversary of the CSA's invasion of Ohio is in a couple days, and I've been wondering: WI the US Army under the brilliant leadership of Gen. Dowling had failed to stop the invasion at Columbus...
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