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Having just watched the Walt Disney film, Victory Through Air Power, I started to wonder about the ability for the United States to follow the instructions laid out by the film. I came away with two major points. The US should develop a new branch of the military, The Air Force. The US...

I like architecture. I like classical architecture, really anything built before the 50's. This is an alterante history forum, so its time to post alternate/unbuilt classical architecture. Feel free to join in and add your own. Some of these buildings may have been built and were either later...

Recently I was thinking about developing a map of the city of Columbia, the alternate capital of the United States located just down river from Harrisburg. Got my giant topographic map of the area ready (thanks USGS) and now I am just trying to come up with ideas for the layout of the city...

One of the things I notice about a lot of maps of Mexico and Central America when annexed by the US is that the old state lines are maintained. I find this somewhat unlikely. Partially depending upon the POD being before these state lines have solidified or been established and partially...

Inspired by a similar thread about Japanese Navy Decisions. This discussion is to mostly focus on specific armaments decisions and decisions on tactics. The same resource limitations still apply, Hitler will be less involved in specific decisions about armaments but not totally un-involved...

...that not only lasts to when the Roman Empire leaves, but also lasts into the future of London with Westminster and other cities that eventually fold into greater London, sticking with this strict grid system. Perhaps farmland, properties and ranches are organized along this strict grid plan...

As I have done previously, I wanted to present multiple scenarios to discuss. Generally speaking, what would be the cultural, economic and impact of US-Canadian relations if history brought the US and Canada to these borders. There is not specific POD, some might be really early while others...

So recently I have been playing with some world building ideas and one of them includes a large, geographically diverse continent dominated by a single massive country. This brought me to thinking about how US foreign relations would work if the country dominated everything north of the Darien...

700,000 tons, roughly 2000' long and mounting Gustav guns at 31.5". Its 12 secondary 9" guns could be the primary guns on a heavy cruiser. Thought of this when browsing the "Modern Nazi Germany" thread. After the Nazi victory over Russia in late 1942, surrender under mild terms of the...

LAST TIME ON DRAGON BA- ALTERNATEHISTORY.COM I thought this was an interesting thread and I find it interesting that everyone came up with ideas to improve the Japanese navy during WW2. I feel like their is a want to give the losers a 'heads up' on what the best policies are and see how...

Not sure if I should have made this an AHC, but I am curious to hear everyone's thoughts on these ideas. I was browsing Shipbucket earlier and noticed some really interesting designs that were never built and it got me thinking about US navy policy. The emphasis after WW2 was on powerful...

Recently I have been working on as series of Tillman Battleships that take into account the New Panamax, not the old one. This led me to a simple question: how big could the locks possible be on the panama canal? Is it possible for an early expansion of the canal or is it more feasible for the...

Recently I have been thinking about non-American centric North American Unions. One thing to point out right away is that this doesn't have to be a union of nations like the European Union, it can be one single large nation that dominates the continent by sheer size or some other federation...

One of the things hat really harmed the city beautiful movement is that it only had about 30-40 years to exist before the great depression stopped it. The City Beautiful movement had its routes in the Le' Enfant plan for Washington DC and the Chicago Worlds Fair of the late 1800's. Could...

Snatching this post I made on a completely different forum, I wanted to post some of the great never built cities. A lot of these are late 1800's/early 1900's. Sources underneath each image. The Woodward plan for Detroit. Looks like something you would see in renaissance Italy or France...

Given a POD of 600 BC or later, how could the Venetian lagoon become the center of a Mediterranean-spanning empire? Assuming an early enough point of departure, how would the city of Rome (or an equivalent city/empire) be different if it had been built on the site of Mestre and Venice? Lets...

I based this off a similar thread in the After 1900 forum. So I was thinking about the city of Rome and how at around 100 BC-300 AD the city sported a population of around a million people. This population was largely limited by technology and the surrounding terrain. So my question is...

I am curious if the United states can become an oil exporter. The quantity of oil exported doesn't matter, the US can still consume most of its own oil, but it can't import oil in large quantities and must export a fair amount (not just a few drops). Can the US pull it off? My...

Originally, California started to crack down on gambling in the mid to late 1900's, but imagine if things were different... Assuming that California legalized gambling before Nevada does, what would the effects be on the Nevada economy? Would Las Vegas ever get built? Would Los Angeles become...

The National Building Museum is hosting a new exhibit called "Unbuilt Washington". This is some serious alternate history fuel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1spKZGEoe9w&feature=channel_video_title (Is there a way I can display videos directly on AH forums?)