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Is there any way to have the United States be founded as a nation where citizenship comes only with military service? Was something like this ever present in European society at any time? For now I'm not even thinking effects on the US, I'm just trying for a knowledge check. And for the...

Simple question: what's the largest Monaco that could be realistically seen today? I'm asking here since I assume the POD would have to be before 1900.

Obviously in hindsight not a good guy, and would have been a poor choice for president particularly at that time. However, what would it have taken to see Wallace in the White House? What kinds of policies would he have implemented, and how would the Civil Rights Movement changed? How would the...

Not informed enough about this era, so hoping to get some expertise. What would have had to change to make the war go the other way? Specifically, what would it have taken for British North America to go to the French rather than the opposite? Would we have ended up with an American Revolution...

I just read an article on Vox claiming that the AR was a mistake. The author cited three main points to back this up. 1. Slavery would have been abolished earlier. 2. Native Americans would have fared better. 3. The UK system of government is more efficient (ignoring Brexit of course). No...

So I know there were some plans in the US for reparations for ex-slaves and their descendants, but were shot down by President Johnson during Reconstruction. Since then, there has been no real move on the subject. What would have had to be different for actual, meaningful reparations to happen...

So, for whatever reason, let's say Chris Carter doesn't get approval for X-Files until 2002. How would this effect the show? Do you think the public would still be willing to watch a show featuring government conspiracies and aliens in the post-9/11 era, particularly since there was no X-Files...

What if, in the United States, the reservation system is never adopted? I know virtually nothing about the establishment of reservations aside from the desire to remove Native Americans from places Americans wanted to be. So, without reservations, what happens to these people? Also, the idea...

So right now France is a republic and the UK is a monarchy. Is there a way to have it so that France is a monarchy, and highly unlikely to get rid of the institution, while the UK is a republic and will probably never ever have a monarchy again?

So originally U.S. Grant and his wife were to accompany President Lincoln and Mary Lincoln to Ford's Theater. He, obviously, couldn't go. During the assassination, Major Rathbone was injured by Booth's hunting knife. Lets say Grant goes, and during the brief struggle right after shooting the...

As of now, around 5.2 million people claim Native American ancestry in the US. What kind of PoD would be necessary to up that number to 10 or even 20 million, maybe more? Bonus points if the US still occupies it's current OTL borders. I can see implications well into the 20th century myself...

So I'm reading up on this Compromise, and have a question. Apparently, various powerful men in the US feared the "Mexicanization" of American politics, where violence would be used to settle elections on federal and state levels. I suppose these fears were somewhat justified, as violence had...

I know this is heresy for my British co-forumites, and possibly my American ones too, but here it goes. What if Doctor Who was produced in the United States and Star Trek in the United Kingdom? What would the pop culture ramifications be?

How would this change US/Caribbean history? Would this totally butterfly away the Spanish-American War or set the stage for further US expansion into the Caribbean?

Simple question: how big can the District of Columbia be? I know that half of it was ceded back to Virginia, so obviously that could have not happened. Other than that, is there any way for a larger US federal district?

What's the most one sided war pre-1900? I'm kind of thinking of the Mexican-American War, though that's admittedly not my area of expertise.

Mostly inspired by a EUIII game where, as Austria, I own or have as vassal most of Germany. Is an Austrian Germany possible, with Vienna as the capital? What would have to change in order for this to come about, beside nerfing Prussia?

I know this is a dumb question, but it came to me and I'm looking for answers from those more knowledgeable than I. How big can Japan be following a defeat in WWII? So, what would it take for them to keep, say, the Kuril Islands or southern Sakhlain (sp?) island, Taiwan or even Korea? Is...

From what I understand, the First World War in Africa wasn't much of a contest, as the Germans rather quickly lost their colonies. So the question is, is there any way to make WW1 in Africa more of a contest, perhaps lasting as long as the war in Europe, without effecting the course of the war...

So what would the effects be of the US Army under Pershing either capturing or killing Pancho Villa?