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One of the most complex questions in US history has been the status of freed blacks: in a society that eventually rejected slavery but had major issues accepting a racial minority as equals. The funny thing is, the US sponsored a potential solution very early with the colonization of Liberia -...

I'm afraid this is just an idea and not a full TL, though it should be and maybe could grow into one. On the thread "Saving Rome: is Germania Enough?", Eurofed was accused of "weighting the dice" with multiple favorable POD's or, at least, the best-possible knock on effects. I guess most would...

Question to Rome experts. It's been proposed - notably by a scenario in What If? - that Rome conquering Germany (say by a more successful general replacing Varus at the Teutoberger Wald) would be enough, alone, to save the Empire. That is - the Vistula-Dniester line is far shorter than the...

א BEING AN INTRODUCTION, AND A NOTE ON SKEPTICS No people has gripped the imagination or affected the destiny of the world as surely as the Hebrews. From their lowly origin as a race of slaves, they have given the world its morals and its laws. It is my design in this history to trace the...

א BEING AN INTRODUCTION, AND A NOTE ON SKEPTICS No people has gripped the imagination or affected the destiny of the world as surely as the Hebrews. From their lowly origin as a race of slaves, they have given the world its morals and its laws. It is my design in this history to trace the...

I've been thinking about the civil wars - Marius and Sulla, Caesar and Pompey, Liberatores and the Second Triumvirate - that broke the Roman Republic. Ironically, these wars were each preceded by some of Rome's most glorious and important expansions. Is there a way to harness the energies of...

Inspired by the no guarantee of Poland thread. What if the Germans, having occupied the Sudetenland and toppled the Benes government, BUT NOT having occupied Prague or pushed Tiso to declare independence, start a crisis over Danzig in March or April of 1939? Without the "wakeup call to...

A variation of the "Russia First" strategy. Germany does not declare war on France. German forces are concentrated on the East and are in a defensive posture in the West. France will have to declare on Germany in support of their Russian ally. Germany merely fortifies the Vosges and waits...

Is there any way we can see a Constantinople-based Ottoman Empire, including Egypt and most of the Balkans, ruling Persia for a substantial period? Feel free to butterfly away the Safavids, etc. It seems to me that "Western" Empires geographically contiguous with Iran never succeed in holding...

Is it possible for the Euro-Western family of civilizations to become, in key ways, absolutely predominant with a POD no earlier than 1000 CE? That is, to the extent possible: European languages dominant in every nation/region. Christianity dominant in every region. Persons of European descent...

With a POD after his birthdate, what is the biggest possible effect Albert Einstein can achieve on history/the greatest personal importance and celebrity he can achieve? You may avert or prolong WWII or other conflicts if necessary.

Hey all, I don't have the time or talent to do it, but the ultimate resource for the site would be a FULL recap of OTL (in some detail, like one of Robert's TLs but w/o a 'protagonist' nation). Here could be included maps, genealogical tables, whatever else was necessary and useful. Everyone...

Is there any point in the Dark or Middle Ages where it is feasible to have the Church slowly supplant or assert supremacy over secular governments, starting with the HRE? If so, how would a world where the Vatican directly governs Western Christendom turn out? Would the church hierarchy be a...

I have read that Edward III's 3rd son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, made a play for the Castillian throne. I do not know much about these attempts or how serious they were. Imagine that John gains the throne. Would his heir, Henry Bolingbroke, depart England to join him (I believe this...

With a POD no earlier than, say, 1000 BC, can we imagine a single World-State? Is this plausible? Do hegemonic powers always have a 'decline and fall', or could the right historic circumstances just lead to a 'rise and rise'? What system of government (totalitarian, hyper-democratic) best...

Yes, it was an anti-Semitic neo-Nazi website, but I was still interested in how the author would finish his "Thousand Year Reich" series. Using the Way Back Machine I've been able to read through chapter 11. Was the series ever finished and posted anywhere online? Thx.

A repost of a TL I still hope to finish, from the following page: http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=15773.0