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  1. AHC/WI: Trump vs Biden, 1988

    As the dust settles on an acrimonious OTL 2020 US presidential election, let us perhaps be reminded that this very same race of Donald Trump versus Joe Biden very easily could have happened many years ago. Joe Biden launched his first, unsuccessful run for the Democratic presidential nomination...

  2. Ideas for Other "Pictures From..." Threads

    One of my favorite threads on this sub-forum is the "Photos From TL-191" thread. I've been having so much fun with it for the past couple of years, and with it's rapidly growing post count, it's clear that I'm not alone. Not only do I want to keep that one going; I was wondering about...

  3. Surrounded by Enemies: What if JFK Had Survived Dallas?

    I got around to reading this novel by Bryce Zabel, with a "JFK lives" premise, and I absolutely could not put it down. I'm usually a slow reader, but I literally finished this book in a day, because it was that much of a page-turner. I can't help but compare it to the other JFK lives story...

  4. Have you ever tried to get others into Alternate History?

    I'm already a big fan of alternate history in general, but, of course, people who aren't so much into it might see it as a strange, nerdy thing to be interested in. Nonetheless, I think a lot of people would like it if they gave it a chance, so I sometimes try to introduce AH books or stories to...

  5. DBWI: Kurt Cobain hadn't died right after Nevermind

    A bit of a blast from the past, but remember the early 90's? That was when an unexpected new band called Nirvana tore onto the music scene, reached number one, and then left just as soon as it arrived. In 1991, the band, which was from the Seattle area, released the album Nevermind. It's...

  6. DBWI: Aerosmith hadn't died in 1977

    As we all know, the careers of the members of Aerosmith, perhaps the greatest American rock band in music history, were tragically cut short when the band rented a faulty, unsafe plane to use during their summer tour, despite Steven Tyler and Joe Perry both being warned about the dangers...

  7. American Civil War becomes a world war?

    I once saw this idea alluded to in a thread a while ago about the Trent Affair causing Britain to join the ACW. However, I couldn't find any thread based on this idea alone, so I thought I'd make a thread for it. My knowledge of the details are pretty fuzzy, so I've got a lot of blanks in my...

  8. Leviathans: new Alternate History steampunk board game

    So I was at the local Renaissance Faire a couple weeks ago, and I saw this game box in one of the bookstores that were set up. I didn't have enough cash at the time to get it (it's got a hefty price tag: $100), but I sure was intrigued. It's a board game released last year with a specific...

  9. WI: Charles Lee named Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army

    (Why yes, I've been replaying Assassin's Creed 3! Why do you ask?) Before George Washington was named as the leader of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, his biggest rival for the position was Charles Lee, a British-born officer with a distinguished record from the...

  10. AHC: Rum still the most popular liquor in the United States

    Before the American Revolution, rum was very widely produced, traded, and consumed in the American colonies. Rum manufacturing was one of the most profitable industries in New England, and estimates of its comsumption say that people in the colonies drank an average of 14 liters of rum each...

  11. WI: Coffee forbidden by the Catholic Church

    Coffee first spread to Europe in the late Renaissance period, being introduced to Venetian merchants by Ottoman traders. But though it was slowly becoming popular, it was not without controversy: in the late 16th century, a substantial number of Catholic priests and church officials condemned...

  12. PC/AHC/WI: Socrates starts a religion

    Socrates is known, of course, as a philosopher, and his belief systems are regarded as widely influential for western thought. But a general look at his life shows this: a charismatic leader with eccentric, controversial spiritual and intellectual beliefs who attracts a wide range of followers...

  13. Recovery from the Great Depression without WW2?

    This is challenging, since most of what caused WW2 is linked directly to the Depression itself. But let's say that somehow, even after the Great Depression is triggered in 1929, a major world war is nonetheless averted. Lots of PODs may be necessary to prevent war, of course. Let's say no Hitler...

  14. WI: Communist North Japan and capitalist South Japan

    In the twilight of World War II, Operation Downfall is put into effect, either because the United States doesn't use the atomic bomb, or Japan refuses to surrender even after the bombs are dropped (as in Robert Conroy's 1945). The war in Japan drags on long enough for the Soviet Union to get...

  15. AHC: Make pro wrestling popular in more countries

    As a fan of the form of entertainment known as professional wrestling, this topic is something I've pondered for a little while. Pro wrestling, consisting of scripted matches where "good guy" wrestlers (called "babyfaces") fight "bad guy" wrestlers (called "heels"), is a unique form of...

  16. Effects of a post-WWI Communist Germany

    Let's say that in the Revolution of 1918-19, immediately following defeat in WWI and the fall of the imperial government, the German Communist movement, led by the Spartacist League (and later, the KPD) had unseated the Social Democrats and triumphed in the revolution. Now, post-war Europe has...

  17. American identity/nationalism with an independent CSA

    When a nation is divided into two through whatever circumstances, creating two opposing and hostile nations that at the same time share a common cultural and national heritage, not only does it create geopolitical tensions. At the same time, it comes to fundamentally affect how such nations...

  18. If published AH books had first been posted here on AH.com

    Let's have some fun. Imagine that some of the most popular and well-known published alternate history stories, from Turtledove, Stirling, or anyone else, had first made their debut here on AlternateHistory.com (ignoring the obvious snafu that this site wouldn't even exist if said authors hadn't...

  19. WI: President Lincoln commits suicide

    When the darkest hour for the United States came with the outbreak of the American Civil War, it happened at a time when the White House was occupied by Abraham Lincoln, a man who, among other things, struggled throughout his life with what modern psychology now recognizes as Clinical...

  20. WI: Hitler assassinated in November 1939

    On November 8th, 1939, Hitler gave a speech at the Burgerbraukeller in Munich to commemorate the Beer Hall Putsch. However, a bomb was planted at the venue by one Georg Elser, a 38-year-old anti-Nazi cabinet maker with communist sympathies, in an attempt to take Hitler out. In real life, as...
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