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  1. Flag "Identification" Game

    How this works is you "identify" (come up with a paragraph or two of alternate history explaining the nation of) the poster before you's flag and then post the one you made yourself so the next poster can do the same. Sound fun? Starting Flag:
  2. PODs/TL ideas about American Liberalism?

    Leaving out the obvious JFK lives, Teddy runs after RFK dies, and the not obvious but covered on these boards, such as "Wellstone Lives". Party of Roosevelt The New Deal Coalition never collapses; perhaps due to avoiding the debacle of the Vietnam war and the disaffection of the youth from...
  3. 1930's US cliches

    Just working on some random ideas and props...
  4. What if General Jack Pershing Became President in 1920?

    There is a great POD in the year 1920 - elements among the Republican Party tried to get Pershing elected as president but he refused to actively campaign, merely saying he would serve if he was elected. So, what if he did actively campaign and he got a party nod? If not the Republicans, who...
  5. The Liberty Bell: Almanack of the People's Party

    POD: In the 1890's; at the height of the People's Party (Populists) influence in America, the Liberal Party's in Britain, and Social Credit/Cooperative groups in Canada; the theories and principles of Populism as exemplified by William Jennings Bryan and others are coherently and intriguingly...
  6. Progressive Era Shift To Multiparty System: Results?

    Suppose, along the lines of the "Wacky Alt Progressive Reforms" or Jello Biafra's "Reds", the US shifts to a parliamentary system of representation in the Progressive Era. Whether one considers a butterfly-free repeat of world history, more or less the same events with different small details...
  7. Friends, Countrymen

    What might things have been like if Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr had become lifelong friends rather than bitter enemies? After being rejected for a military command by President Adams, could Burr have fallen in with Federalists critical (as Hamilton was, right?) of Adams in New York...
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