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At some point between the purchase but before gold is discovered (but the later the better), is there any plausable way for the UK to acquire Alaska - either purchase, treaty (some sort of swap?), or via war?

In 1970s, the FCC forbid newspaper television cross-ownership, but grandfathered in NYTimes owned WQXR and Chicago Tribune owned WGN-TV and WGN-AM. If the FCC had applied the rule more strictly, and not grandfathered WGN-TV, what might have happened? Would a spun off WGN-TV remian viable? Would...

Question 1: How feasable would it be for the XM16E1 project to be killed by congress in 1966 or 1967? Lets say it gets a lot more negative press, the problems with the different propellants is worse, or a combination of those and other factors makes the Ichord committee conclude that it's...

Post independence, Jamaica had about a decade of economic stability then did quite poorly and had associated political instability. So, given a fairly narrow window, with a POD no earlier than mid-1965, how could Jamaica end up more stable, a la the Bahamas or Barbados?

Jackson Pollock, the artist, died in a car accident in August 1956 while driving drunk. So, as it says on the tin, what happens if either the accident doesn't happen or if it does and he lives?

The Northeastern power outage starting November 9 1965 was one of biggest power outages in US history. So, as it says on the tin, how bad could it get? Could the system failure cascade as far as, say, Chicago?

Is it possible for late 19th C. anarchists to generally avoid "propaganda of the deed" bombings and assassinations? Am I on the right track in thinking that far fewer such attacks would result in less of a negative image of the bomb throwing anarchist and thus a much stronger anarchist movement...

Route 66 overshadows the Lincoln Highway today, especially in pop culture. Your challenge is to make the Lincoln Highway at least as important and as great a cultural icon as Route 66, if not more so.

I have some ideas for this myself, but I'd like to see what suggestions people have as well. I'll leave it fairly open - a POD date range of 1890 to 1920 or so (placed in post-1900 due to the range being more on that side) and a preference for MMP, STV, and party-list in that order...

Some of the later posts in this thread (the ones on Sufism and hippies in particular) got me thinking. The 60s and 70s counterculture had black elements, but more civil rights, black power associated and very urban, as compared to the primarily white hippies and yippies. But some black...

On November 6, 1975, one of the most important and influential punk rock bands played their first gig, at St. Martin's College of Art. The gig ended when the plug was pulled and a brawl broke out. So, what if, instead of simply getting kicked off stage, a fire broke out and Malcolm McClaren...

Your challenge, should you accept it, is to replace Africa as the primary source of slaves in the New World with East Indians, Chinese, and other Asians, particularly in the US. How does the world look in 2014?

Here's one for you guys. What might have happened if Lenin had survived Fanya Kaplan's assassination outside the Hammer and Sickle on Aug. 30 1918?

Really quick, for those unfamiliar with the backgrounds, here are the biographies of Elijah Muhammad (Poole) and Malcolm X (Little): http://www.danielpipes.org/341/how-elijah-muhammad-won http://www.biography.com/people/malcolm-x-9396195 Long story short, ITTL Elijah Poole was active in...

April 4, 1968, Lorraine Motel, balcony outside room 306, Memphis, Tennessee, 6:01 PM Doctor Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. is standing next to Jesse Jackson. A butterfly flits across rhetoric balcony. Dr. King ducks. A shot rings out. Jesse Jackson falls dead. James Earl Ray has just...

For those unfamiliar, here's the lowdown on the OTL Hard Hat Riot: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Hat_Riot The challenge: instead of OTL's divide between the working class "Hard Hats" and the bourgeois student hippies, have some solidarity between the two a la Paris in '68, leading not...

Inspired from this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/Discussion/showthread.php?p=7005089&posted=1#post7005089 Pretty much what it says on the tin. Do away with the GI Joe animated series and instead have Sgt. Rock get a cartoon. Bonus points if you have the show feature the others...

Assuming that the earliest possible date for atomic weapons (proper ones, not "dirty"bombs) is likely to be the mid 1920s, your challenge is, with a post-1900 POD, to either delay WWI or propose an alternative "Great War" with similar charateristics prolonged stalemate, trenches, widespread...

One of the local college kids was into the coffee shop where I work this morning, finishing up a paper on Gettysburg. He had an interesting premise: what if Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson had died of his wound at Chancellorville rather than at Culp's Hill? Anybody want to take a swing at that...

Inspired by this half-joke. So, to take the premise seriously... The US had a biowar research program during WWII. There were lots of things that could have stymied the Manhattan Project. So, let's imagine that the US has either not gone with the MP or cut it short. There's more time...