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We've all heard the constant claims that America is similar in some way (whether in detail or in breadth, of substance of superficiality) to the Roman Republic/Empire. But what I'm interested in (as a bit of a fun game with the members of this board) is to try to reshape America so that it...

Just a little thought that went through my head. What will happen to England if during the succession crises of 1066 all the major claimants to the throne end up dead? You can consider this what if either with a Norman victory, an English victory, or a draw, but now both leaders at the battle...

We already have one for Association Football, so this will be a general thread for posting the results of other sporting events, such as Stanley Cup Finals, Super Bowls, etc. etc. I'll be posting alternate playoff results from an NFL that adopted an alternate playoff system, starting in 1970...

In 1989 an author named Dan Moldea released a book called "Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football" in which he claimed, with evidence, that most owners in the NFL at the time were involved with organized crime, and that games were being regularly rigged to manipulate...

The 1912 election was a dangerous experience for more than one candidate. It is probably fairly common knowledge on this board by this point that at one point during the campaign an unemployed and mentally ill man attempted to assassinate Theodore Roosevelt while he was campaigning in the city...

Let's say that, instead of the traditional Medieval crossbow being introduced into armies, the Asian repeating crossbow is instead developed around the same time as the introduction of the crossbow into medieval warfare, and is instead introduced instead. The weapon only has half the effective...

As a counterpart to the other thread currently bouncing around in these forums, what if Napoleon decides to just sell New Orleans to the Americans instead of the whole Louisiana Purchase? Perhaps an advisor convinces him that he can make double his money by selling this part now and the rest in...

It seems, at least, in my opinion, that the Middle Ages has been unfortunately ignore by the "-punk" movement. We have Clockpunk for the Renaissance, Steampunk for the Victorian Era, Dieselpunk for the Interwar era, etc. etc., but we have no examples of "retro science fiction" for the Middle...

Let's say that the far-right in Germany never coalesces around the Nazis, and instead the dominant party on the right in Germany is a fascist authoritarian party that takes power around the same time as the Nazis did, perhaps by winning both the Presidency and a majority in the Reichstag. How...

It's that time again. Psuedo "In the Presence of my Enemies" setup where Germany is an analogue for the Soviet Union but I tried to emphasize the gerontocracy more. Probably implausible but I made it quickly so that's to be expected I guess. Eternal Fuehrer: - Adolf Hitler (Retired 1950...

Much has been made about the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981, but I propose instead that Reagan is assassinated during his first campaign for Governor of California in 1966. In this hypothetical scenario, a bomb explodes in the backroom of his campaign headquarters, killing: -...

Let's say that instead of working with the script that resulted in Batman (1989), Tim Burton instead directs the script that becomes Batman Begins. The cast and crew are mostly the same where applicable, with absent characters obviously not being played. I'm curious who would be a good choice to...

It is 1901, and the Commonwealth of Australia is having it's first federal election. The current Prime Minister is Sir Edmund Barton. The current leading party in Parliament is None. The Parties: The Protectionist Party: Focused on enacting policies centered around protection of Australia's...

I remember indulging a wild back in reading the semi-famous Medieval America blogs on the internet, and it got me thinking as to how a "Second Middle Ages" would affect the other continents of the world. I doubt Europe would just simply slide straight back into "old-school" feudalism, and I...

I've been on a bit of a sports (specifically gridiron football) recently, so I was thinking maybe there could be a thread to talk about alternate history in sports. I'll start: What if negotiations between the NFL and the AFL in the 1960s broke down (they had once before, in 1965), and the...

I haven't seen one of these the last few pages, so why don't we play a Leaders game? I'll start. It's America under a somewhat Parliamentary system of government (there is only the Federal Parliament, which has a proportional by-state allotment but allows the states to decide how to allot the...