Recent content by JMT

In 1865, tired and traumatized by five long years of Civil War, the Presidents of America's most prestigious universities, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn and Brown, collectively announce that after the conclusion of the war, they will no longer admit any student from any...

The problem with this is it makes the superstates too screwed. The US is supposed to be alone in ASAE. Maybe, MAYBE I could see bringing in Britain, Canada or France but otherwise this is just a terra nullius/virgin Earth thing with extra steps.

Any political hopes he had are.

Had he never met Jane Fonda, Ted Turner would probably have become President.

Flagg is alt-OBL and leading from inside the US, currently as a wanderer under a pseudonym in the deserts of the Southwest as of 9/10.

Guys, I'm not asking HOW it happens, I'm asking LET'S SAY it happens.

Let's say on 9/10/2001, a terrorist group calling itself The Base, under the leadership of a man named Randall Flagg and espousing a particularly brutal strain of apocalyptic Christianity, attacks the WTC, Pentagon and an alt-Flight 93. The attacks proceed as OTL, except the perpetrator is now...

Is there any way Austria-Hungary (or Austria-Hungary-Croatia) could survive to the present?

"Colonel" Tom was, infamously, the manager of Elvis Presley., and made some...poor choices in the management of The King. What would change if Parker had never been born?

Have Hitler decide to fight on the front to martyr himself?

In October 1909, American President Taft and Mexican President Diaz met in El Paso-Juarez for the first Presidential summit between the two nations. In the El Paso Chamber of Commerce building, Texas Rangers intercepted a man with a palm pistol who was mere feet from shooting at the two...

Assuming the Nazis defeat the Soviets in the field and starve the British out, Fascism would have held despotic sway over all of continental Europe. My question is, what would happen to Switzerland and the small European states such as Luxembourg, San Marino or Andorra in such a scenario?

As it says, your challenge is to make Charleston the US's largest city, around the size of OTL New York. The POD must be after 1781, and the country must remain unified after the Civil War.

Have Portugal seperate and have Spain lose the Vancouver War to the Anglo-American alliance? If America gets hold of the gold in Las Californias...

A united Carolina probably would see a city around OTL Lumberton or maybe as far west as Charlotte built as the planned capital instead of Raleigh and Columbia.