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  1. WI: Significant Technical Exchange Between Norse and Indigenous Americans

    What it says on the tin, what if the Norse contact with the americas had facilitated a transfusion of old world technologies and domestic animals into the new world. Regardless of whether or not the Norse population in the americas is sustained for much longer than in OTL. This isn’t so much...

  2. What if: Cinna Defeats Cinna In the First Civil War

    What it says on the tin.

  3. What If: Cinna defeats Sulla in the Civil war

    What it says above. What happens if Sulla is comprehensively beaten.

  4. WI: Bundism Triumphs Over Zionism

    In the early 20th century there were two major streams of thought in the Jewish community that I know a significant amount about. Zionism and Bundism, we all probably know about Zionism, the movement to return to Israel and colonize Palestine. But Bundism is more forgotten, it was in favor of...

  5. WI: Antonio Maceo Lives

    So, just an introduction to the man, Antonio Maceo was one of the most important military leaders of Cuban independence. A skilled general who in spite of prejudice from his peers rose to the highest ranks of the separatist army, early on in Cubas final war for independence he accomplished the...

  6. Kollontai/Trotksy duopoly Succeeds Lenin.

    What it says on the tin, what do people think of the idea of a Duopoly emerging from the leadership of the Left Opposition and Workers Opposition in the Soviet Union. With Trotsky giving in on the idea of union control of the factories rather than direct state power.

  7. The Diggers and The Levelers?

    So, the pod for an AH idea I'm working on for a timeline about a colonization of America that results in a better situation for the natives involves the Levellers and Diggers (two groups that evolved in the English civil war who were radically egalitarian, in favor of common ownership of land...

  8. Haitian Resettlement of Free Slaves?

    So, a question just popped into my head. Repatriation of American free slaves back to Africa was ridiculously unecomomical. But what about the chances of settling many American blacks in Haiti? It's the nearest "black republic" you can find And would serve the purposes of many who wanted...

  9. WI: Trotsky Becomes First Chairman of SOVNARKOM

    What it says on the tin, Trotsky was originally proposed by Lenin as the head of the soviet government after the revolution, but Trotsky turned down the position in part because he feared that his Jewish heritage would inspire opposition and in part because he was intimidated by the...

  10. AHC: Tony Benn as Labour Leader

    As it says in the title, construct a situation where Tony Benn with a politics much like OTL becomes the leader of the Labour Party. Bonus points if you can make him PM.

  11. WI: Greeks Lose Thermopylae is Lost on the First Day

    So yeah, what if the battle of Thermopylae where lost within the first day of it starting (let's say the Persians manage to win the naval battle immediately, allowing them to surround and wipe out the Greeks on land), what are the consequences on the larger Greco-Persian war if the delaying...

  12. AHC: Independent and Prosperous Biafra

    What the title says. With any POD from secession on create a scenario where Biafra managed to both remain independent and to become one of the most prosperous African countries (top five GDP per capita to give a clear measure).

  13. WI: Emperor Maximillian Of Austria Hungary

    So, what if the 1853 assassination attempt on Franz Josef had been pulled off successfully and thus his younger brother Maximillian takes the throne? I've always felt Maximillian was better suited to Austrian political life than he was to Mexican politics. On the one hand I tend to think the...

  14. WI: Atlee Completes His Second Term

    So yeah, what would have happened had Atlee been able to secure a workable majority in 1951 and continue being prime minister through to the end of his second term?

  15. WI: President Humphrey

    So, I'm curious what the consensus is about how a Humphrey presidency would go given how close the election was.

  16. WI: Uesugi Shogunate

    So considering a large part of his inability to claim the Shogunate in OTL was his death at fifty eight what happens if we give Uesugi ten more years alive? To the point he successfully establishes himself as Shogun and is able to successfully create a viable succession for the shogunate.

  17. AHC/WI: Black Army Successfully Establishes Anarchist(ish) Ukraine

    So in OTL Nestor Makhno and his black army where an anarchist group from the Ukraine who sought to establish an anarchist system in the Ukranian Free Territory, and out of all the anarchists in the Ukraine they where probably the most successful, being defeated by the red army through trickery...

  18. AHC: Khwarazmians Halt Mongol Expansion

    So yeah, your challenge is to have the Kwarezemians defeat Mongol expansion at their borders. They can be pushed back but they need to definitively stop mongol expansion in that direction. EDIT: Oh and because I always tell other people to do this but may be doing it myself, if this isn't...

  19. AHC: German and Italian Official US Languages

    Your challenge is to create a situation where both German and Italian are both official languages of the United states alongside English.

  20. WI: No WWII?

    So assuming World War II is avoided because the Nazis do not come to power and the allies allow a gradual lessening of Versailles effects in order to ensure German stability and solvency (so that they're capable of paying their indemnities), what is the effect this has on Europe? I personally...
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