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Let's say Hank doesn't hurt his back again in 1951, and so doesn't end up with as severe a drug habit. Maybe, in keeping with the Luke the Drifter persona, he even ends up drying out a la Johnny Cash. Where do things go after that?

An aside in this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/Discussion/showthread.php?t=251286 suggested this. Rather than Harry Truman, have Harry Hopkins follow FDR. I'll leave the PoD open, but limited to one that doesn't butterfly away FDR's presidency or US involvement in WWII.

The challenge: rather than the 1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, with a PoD post Pearl harbor, at some point after the end of the Pacific War, have lasting (no temporary coups or such by the Ryūkyū Dokuritsu Undo) independent Republic of the Ryūkyūs established.

The discussion in this thread about the possibility of some sort of accident with Fermi's with the Chicago Pile of 1942 reminded me of the old conspiracy theories about the Port Chicago Disaster actually being either a test or accidental detonation of an atomic bomb. Vogel's been busted...

As it says on the tin: with a PoD between the Korean and Vietnam Wars, do away with conscription in the US and discuss the effects.

North American Aboriginal cultures are fairly rare in not having developed an alcohol based beverage. Many of the cultures had the materials and Mesoamerican cultures had alcohol. So what if NA aboriginals had developed, let's say, maple wine/meadbased on maple syrup?

Pretty much what it says on the tin. Europeans had forgotten or lost the atlatl and lithic tool making crafts by the modern period (well before in most cases). The challenge is to keep those technologies alive in Europe to a degree where people at least know that lithic artifacts are man made...

Pretty much what it says on the tin. Europeans had forgotten or lost the atlatl and lithic tool making crafts by the modern period (well before in most cases). The challenge is to keep those technologies alive in Europe to a degree where people at least know that lithic artifacts are man made...

It's sort of an obscure musical footnote, but back in the early 50s, there were a few white radio stations that dabbled in playing Race Music for white audiences. Would it be possible for Race Music to replace Boogie* or Hill Music*? What sort of POD might make it more popular? Maybe if some...

I just finished reading Thomas Franks' book What's the Matter With California? For those unfamiliar with the book, it explores the rise of social conservatism and how the Democrats managed to turn the West Coast, notably, California, into a stonghold after having been a progressive Republican...

IOTL, there are quite a variety of football codes - association, rugby league, rugby union, American, Canadian, Aussie rules, and Gaelic being the big ones. Your challenge is to have a single popular code develop that is played worldwide combining elements of all the above codes. (Ie, simply...

In the 16th C., the French, Spanish, and English all made a few attempts to establish colonies along the Atlantic coast of North America. They all failed, except those St. Augustine, Florida. The French succeeded in the north and the English in the middle in the 17th C. But, what if some of...

The current thread about in post-1900 about Soviet Alaska got me thinking about how Russia can keep Alaska. I'm thinking a multi-pronged POD. First, the Schäffer Affair goes better for the Russians, giving them a stronger base in Hawaii. Let's say they back Kaumualii in a winning bid for...

Anyone who's eaten at a Peruvian or Carribean restaurant knows the patata, that starchy tuber. The Spanish supposedly tried to introduce it to Europe, but it seems keenwa (OOC: OTL's quinoa) took off instead and remains a staple in North America and parts of Europe. So, what if patatas were a...

The US invasion of Iraq was in the works from 1998 and pretty well 100% with Bush II's election. If the 9/11 WTC attacks are significantly delayed, and the invasion occurs in either 2002 or 2003, and THEN the WTC attacks occur, what happens?

Inspired by a stray thought about the role tea played in the ARW, I was looking up some history of tea cultivation in North America: So, what if European explorers and/or colonists discover tea plants growing natively in North America in the 17th C., either adopted to growing conditions there...

While thinking about this thread, I came across the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Against_the_War#Kansas_City_meeting and http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907734,00.html So, what would have happened had Scott Camil gone about this in a better...

Spawned from a bit of unclarity in the OP here, how might a WWII of "Germany, Britain and France vs USSR and Britain" come to pass? I'll leave the date of the POD relatively open, but at least after the Act of Union, and preferably after mid-19th C.

A song on the radio about Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road got me to wondering about this. The closest I could find here was this. However, that's a rather different scenario, and the discussion is about the What if there were significantly fewer gaps or passes across the Appalachians? Let's...

This was just a passing thought while reading up on some history of the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean. Would it be possible for the post-Spanish Succession period pirates to work an alliance with the Barbary Corsairs and/or other prirate groups (the Maltese pirates also come to mind)...