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  1. Third European War?

    With a PoD off January 1st, 1900, how can the Europeans embroil themselves in not two, but three major conflicts? Modifying WWI and WWII, or butterflying either or both away is perfectly acceptable. Somehow, however, general unrestricted warfare has to consume the vast majority of Europe three...
  2. Negro Reservations

    Is it possible, with a PoD after January 1st, 1782, for the North American black slave population to be "settled" on reservations, rather than incorporated into the body politic as geographically distributed subserviants? Similary to Native Americans, could there be large swaths of territory by...
  3. America Brought Low...

    Your challenge, if you should choose to accept it, it to screw America so bad (don't jump for joy quiet yet foreigners) that these sweet young ladies, rather than being beautiful examples of the freedom boys fighting spirits, when combinesd with their mating spirits, can bring, are denoted in...
  4. Urban Militia: 2000

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, it to create a timeline in which American urbanites are viewed as the people most obsessed with the 2nd Amendment, and the vast majority of guns of all types are owned by urbanites, with Urban militias being pretty much ubiquitous.
  5. Utopianism More Vouge Than Dystopianism

    Dystopianism is quite vouge among the alternate history set, generally. (I'm not taliking about this particular site.) See Sterlings Draka Series. What PoDs could make Utopianism more interesting to readers. Where writers compete, not to see who could make a society even worse than the...
  6. What if the South Does Not Rebel?

    How is American history changed if, after Abraham Lincoln is elected, the hotheads in the South are somehow constrained and there is no rebellion, instead they pursue their interest through the Supreme Court and Senate. What PoDs are necessary for this?
  7. American-Mexican Political Union

    As history changes, it's starting to seem to me that America and Mexico might politically unify before Canada and America. Taking this into account, how could we have the post OTL 1900 Mexico and post OTL America become a single unified state by 2001?
  8. President Robert Gould Shaw

    How could this happen, and what would be the effects?
  9. Robert Gould Shaw, President

    How Could Robert Gould Shaw Become President of the United States of America, and what would his Presidency look like?
  10. Monarchist Antarctica

    Is it possible, with a 20th century PoD...oh, nevermind...:p
  11. German Monarchy: Can It Be Saved?

    Could the German Monarchy be saved, or restored, with a Pod after the end of WWI?
  12. Egypt, Forever Faithful

    What would be required to have Egypt ruled by Pharaoh, even a "Constitutional One" today and its populace adhere at least in the majority to a religions recognizable / arguably continuous with that of ancient Egypt? This doesn't mean that Egypt was never conquered, but that somehow it continued...
  13. The Non-Eurasian Option

    Is it possible, by 2000, to have a state whose capital is not in Eurasia unite the World under one banner?
  14. What If Lee Were Killed Instead of Jackson at Chancellorsville?

    How might this effect the outcome of the Civil War? Especially if it retcons any 2nd Southern invasion of the North....
  15. Andrews Sisters Become The First...

    Group To Have Musical Hit span a century, with their Boogie Woodie Bugle Boy becoming the 1# Song on the American net on January 2, 2041. How in the world could this transpire. Just for memory's sake, here are the lyrics and a link to the song. (Would the U.S. Have to be at or near War, or is it...
  16. Ottomans Sack Vienna in 1529

    What are the reprocussions, if any?
  17. Prince William and Malia Obama

    Despite the creepiness, somehow Prince Willian's first wife...some five or more years from now, becomes Malia Obama. How does this effect the world?
  18. Aparthied South Africa / White Africa

    Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to have the Afrikaner dominated apartheid state in South Africa survive at least until this date, October 13th, 2011, with a POD no later than 1900. Please consider world-wide effects.
  19. Race And Slavery In British America

    The American Revolution fails, for whatever reasons, or variable reasons depending on the poster. How does this effect the evolution of race and slavery issues in British North America? Or the British Americas in general, considering their Carribean posessions.
  20. A War over a Pig

    In June 1859, the United States and Great Britain almost went to war over a slaughtered pig: Cite, "A world on Fire" by Amanda Foreman. "Ten mothes earlier, in June 1859, a domestic pig on San Juan Island in the Staits of Juan de Cuca had wandered from its enclosure into the patoto patche of...
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