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  1. WI Black US College in 1808?

    Post-ARW, there was a strong abolitionist movement that shared support among prominent Founders, as well as some prominent free educated Blacks, but steeply declined from around 1810-1820, as many among the Founding generation died off. So, how does it happen and what are the long term...

  2. WI: Jane Austen in America?

    What if Jane Austen had come to America? What would have been the effect on her work and American literature in general?

  3. From Pole to Distant Pole, Part 1: Gens de Couleur

    Introduction First off, I would like to thank ericams2786 for allowing me to play around with his scenario, American Empire-US in North and South America. He put forward an interesting idea, which has persisted in my waking thoughts, despite my efforts to purge the primordial idea with great...

  4. WI: Rober Rogers--founder of Rogers' Rangers--fights for the colonies in the ARW?

    OTL, Rogers was offered to fight for the colonies, but was arrested by Washington on suspicion of being a British spy. In rensentment, he went to the Loyalist side and raised the Queen's and later the King's Rangers. What if a friend of Rogers had intervened on his behalf and prevented the...

  5. AH Challenge: Robert E. Lee attached as VP candidate in 1860

    With a POD no earlier than 1855, get Lee attached as VP to the ticket of any party in the 1860 presidential race. No ASBs allowed. :D

  6. Chinese victory in Sino-Soviet War: Operation Snow Men

    I just got done reading the Sino-Soviet War thread, with the various angles of analysis. I want to take the Sino-Soviet border clashes and what-if war a step further and try and find a possible path to Chinese victory. Here is what I have so far... Most predictions hinge on China's use of...

  7. AH Challenge: German-American Bund Party survives

    Here is a challenge: Figure out a POD that allows the German-American Bund to survive to and past the end of WWII, without altering the United States' entry into the war.

  8. AH Challenge: How could Spartacus have defeated Crassus in Sicily?

    I have been contemplating the last thread on this subject wondered how Spartacus could defeat an invasion force, most likely made up of Crassus' eight legions, which, at maximum, is going to be about 48,000 battle-hardened troops. Spartacus has about 70,000 ,ore poorly trained, but also...

  9. AH Challenge: Make Hitler more sane

    Between 1912 and 1923, create a POD that could result in a saner Adolf Hitler. What I mean is an Adolf Hitler that is still devoted to roughly the same ideology, but more pragmatic in his methods. I realized that the final POD I cooked up in "A Change in Hitler's Reading Material" thread was...

  10. A Change in Hitler's reading material

    We know that Hitler had a few key books that really shaped his thinking, central among those being Machiavelli. What if we extended Hitler's reading list to include Carl von Clausewitz's "On War" and Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"? There is no question of availability for von Clausewitz's book...

  11. Very hair-raising POD for all the WWIII scenarios

    This is an interesting article (more detailed one here). It is about Soviet officer who recieved an alarm that the US was launching missiles. He decided it was a false alarm and ignored it. Of course it begs the question of what would have happened if he hadn't. With just the information in the...

  12. WI Hong Kong seceeded from China?

    We always tend to think of Taiwan as being the hot spot for conflict, but what about Hong Kong? It is, at least in theory, more Western than even Taiwan, has the financial resources to achieve independence, and the population density to raise an army (6,815,800 in 2002, spread over about 420...

  13. Timeline of Events leading up to the Second Civil War of '93

    In another entry on the second Civil War of '93 series, here is a timeline of events pertaining to the Dukakis administration leading up to the War. It's organized in an odd way, has holes, and probably needs more filling out. Go ahead and tear it apart. Make suggestions and point out mistakes...

  14. AH Challenge: Explain This Flag

    Explain this flag without using an ASB.

  15. The Second American Civil War of 1993: Initial Conception

    Walter Kaufmann has allowed me to take his scenario and expand on it. Here is my initial conception. What I am thinking is that OTL, your three musketeers were killed while serving in LRRP units, but ATL Latham and Roberts become NCOs, both later serving serving in 5th Special Forces group...

  16. AH Challenge: Pirate Kingdoms surrounding USA

    Ok, here is the the challenge. You have to figure out how to create and sustain a greater number of pirate kingdoms than OTL into the late 19th century. And they have to be some in the Western Hemisphere (I don't nind if there are some in the East as well). All this has to be done, and it can't...

  17. Lee Presidency Revision: Same POD, new scenario.

    Ok, before I get into war, I have some new ideas of how to make the ALT more plausible, e.g. how Lee becomes President. By 1860, Lee is on his second term in the House of Represenatives, and is nominally well known on Capitol Hill for his famous father, his stalwart and honorable character...

  18. Lee's Presidency II: Notes--From Childhood to Presidency and Republican-Crown War

    Ok, this post is a continuation of "Scenario of how Robert E. Lee became President." The post ended with the chosen POD of Lee's father, Henry Lee, surviving until 1856 to pass his political franchise to his son. Lee's childhood is not dramatically different from OTL. His father is away in...

  19. Scenario of how Robert E. Lee became President

    I'll admit that the thread "No ACW leads to Anglo-American Conflict?" inspired part of this scenario. In 1857, while commanding a calvary unit in Texas, Lee's wife comes down with a severe illness and lapses into a coma. Resigning his commission, he comes back to his native Virginia to care...

  20. AH Challenge: Robert E. Lee wins Presidential election in 1860

    Can anyone come up with a way of getting Lee to run for President in the 1860 election and win? POD needs to be with in the decade, preferrably in 1859 or 1860. No ASB please. Feel free to make a timeline.
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