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Background Now after reading some more reputable documents (neat little things stacks of paper bound on one side, with hard covers, I believe some people call them "books" :D ) I've found that my initial suspicions that the Dash was the product of incredible luck were confirmed. Indeed, the...

One event that has always stood out as one of the biggest mistakes made by the CSA during the early phase of the war was Polk's misguided attempt to seize Columbus Kentucky or "The Gibraltar of the Mississippi" as he called it. Such a move violated Kentucky's neutrality and brought it into the...

One thing that has always perplexed me about the Peninsular War was why the Portuguese monarchy didn't return to the country during the British intervention there. I'll confess I haven't done nearly enough research but I'm curious if there are any experts out there. Now I'm not proposing they...

I would really appreciate some of your thoughts on an idea I had last night. Background Information: For those of you who don't know the Quasi-War was a series of events that constituted an undeclared war between the French Republic and the USA between 1798 and 1800. These events led to the...

Researching my Bayonet Jackson TL gave me this idea. POD July 1861: During the Battle of Rich Mountain, General George B. McClellan is shot and killed by a Confederate Partisan who somehow managed to infiltrate the Union lines (plausible enough IMO, if you disagree pretend he fell off his...

Hey everyone! Recently there was a TL about "Stonewall Jackson" joining the Union instead of the Confederacy and going on to fight at the Battle of Shiloh. Though I enjoyed the TL while it lasted, I also began working on my own version drawing upon different biographies to create a more cogent...

99.999% sure this hasn't been posted before, how 'bout this for a unique POD? Background: Throughout WWII, Britain shipped her POWs across the Atlantic to Prisoner of War camps in Canada. In addition to the fear of U-boat attack, there was always a fear that the prison ship's cargo would rise...

Linky Let's say some experiments occur earlier, early enough that military applications are being considered in and around WWI. Prototypes are completed detailing military applications, though they don't serve in WWI, they'll be more than ready for the rematch 20 years down the line. So...

WI Henry Kissinger doesn't make it to the US? Lets say that his family doesn't decide to get out of Germany in the 1930's. They stay and instead of Henry becoming one of the most influential men in American politics, he becomes just another number in the Holocaust. What does the world look like?

Quick idea... Let's say that Kitchener's plan wins out over Churchill's to attack Alexandretta, the hub of the Ottoman Rail network instead of Gallipoli in 1915. Let's also say for the sake of argument, that the attack succeeds and the Entente take the city and it's environs. Now the...

In OTL, the Kingdom of Poland and later the Commonwealth of Poland/Lithuania became known for it's religious tolerance and subsequently it's large population of Jews. But was the religious tolerance of Poland/Lithuania inevitable? What if the Polish monarchy/nobility opted to echo the rest of...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is this: With a POD no earlier than January 1st 1900, have Sweden, a country that has become known for it's welfare state and social liberal policies, develop in such a way that in ATL it's known for it's social conservatism, pro-business...

Okay, I know this is a bit of a stretch but bear with me. Think of it as a Counter-factual version of more than a few Civil War Alternate Histories. Now, many AH scenarios involving a late Confederate victory center around a Democratic victory in 1864 putting the incompetent George McClellan...

Hey everyone, In honor of the announcement made by FOX to make this season of the hit TV show "24" it's last here's a WI. How would the show have developed had the events of 9/11 not happened? Would it have taken off like it did in OTL?

Hey everyone, I've been lying low for a while, school's been a killer. Once it's over though I'll be back with a few TL's I'm working on in my (non-existent) spare time. In the meantime how about this? Let's say that in the aftermath of the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, Gabriel Dumont...

Had an idea last night, wanted to flesh it out and see what you guys think. Let's first Posit a Southern victory in the American Civil War. Lee's orders aren't lost at Antietam, Stuart doesn't go off on his own at Gettysburg, take your pick. Now a great deal of thought has gone into what...

The recent thread on Herbert Hoover's assassination got me thinking about the potential for a serious rift in the GOP caused by the Great Depression. Without someone in the ideological center of the party (Hoover) to draw things together and run in what was essentially a no-win situation, I...

Voyager Cancelled Fall 1995- Summer 1996 POD: Despite having premiered to record numbers of viewers, Star Trek: Voyager’s ratings begin to drop during its second season. With the flagship show of Paramount’s UPN network floundering increased pressure is put on the producers to salvage the...

March 10th 1956: A B-47 carrying 3 US airmen and 2 cores of nuclear material disappears over French Algeria. Despite frantic searches, by French, British, and American forces in the region. No evidence is found of the plane, it's crew, or the 2 cases of nuclear material. It's disappearance...

Keep in mind that the following POD will have very few ramifications on the outcome of WWII, that is not what I'm interested in. I'm more interested in the effects on the political future of France. Now in OTL the fate of Admiral Francois Darlan was quite a near run thing. He left Toulon on...