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  1. Lincoln’s presidency without a civil war

    There are of course lots of US civil war atls, but has anyone done a secession delayed or cancelled timeline with Lincoln still as president ?

  2. Missouri’s antebellum Republicans

    I’m interested in the idea of an atl without a U.S. civil war in the 1860s. In this scenario Missouri becomes ground zero in the battle for emancipation, with Republicans gradually gaining in strength from their St Louis stronghold, and with patronage support from the Lincoln administration...

  3. The alternate history possibilities of Otto Strasser

    I just finished Otto Strasser's Flight from Terror, his autobiography about his role in the Nazi party, his expulsion, the formation of his black front and his flight from Germany after Hitler took over. There are several inaccuracies and chronological problems in the book (Prussian Prime...

  4. No Reichstag fire

    Not sure if this has been discussed before, but what happens if the Reichstag fire doesn't occur? I don't think it makes too much of a difference as Hitler's new regime is already suppressing its opponents to an extent, the fire merely turbo charged the move. So without the fire, a more...

  5. South Carolina secession referendum in 1860-61

    I would guess that if the voters of South Carolina were actually allowed to vote on whether they supported South Carolina secession that a majority would do so, but I wonder what the final support level would be, and how close the no side would get to winning western South Carolina. The mere...

  6. More proof of NSDAP in disarray if Hitler not appointed Chancellor in Jan 33

    One of the ironies of Hitler's appointment to the chancellorship was that the Nazis were on the decline electorally by that point. The Lippe state elections of January 15, 1933 are often pointed to as an example of the party rebounding somewhat, but in that case they poured in a lot of resources...

  7. White forces in Moscow defeat Bolsheviks in Nov 1917

    In the book Lances Down author Richard Boleslavski writes about the fairly strong (at least compared to Petrograd) resistance to the Bolshevik takeover in Moscow, with white units composed primarily of cadets (iirc) actually going on the offensive at the start, but later crushed by better armed...

  8. the German peace offer of July 19, 1940 is leaked worldwide

    I was browsing through Clive Ponting's 1940 Myth and Reality, and he mentions that on July 19, 1940 Malcolm Lovell, an American quaker intermediary told British ambassador Lord Lothian (the former Philip Kerr), that German charge affairs in Washington DC, Hans Thomsen, had the peace terms...

  9. A German French seperate peace before May 1940

    Just finished reading Heinz Pol's Suicide of a Democracy, written by a refugee from Hitlers Germany who was in France in the late 1930's and was lucky enough to get out of France right before the German victory. His book deals with the various pro-German, or at the very least, anti-war French...

  10. Hitler gets his way, the Austrian elections of 1937

    I don't recall the source, but remember reading that one of the demands or hopes that Hitler had for Austria in the middle thirties was that the Schuschnigg government would allow free elections for a new Austrian parliament. On the surface this is pretty ironic in that we have a dictator...

  11. An anti-Slavery governor elected in a slave state

    I've always been fascinated by alternative US emancipation strategies that could have happened without war. Generally this involves a moderate gradual emancipationist party winning seats in the upper South legislatures and phasing in gradual emancipation, perhaps through a "liberation of the...

  12. AHC, Austria keeps much of the Sudetenland after WW1

    Assuming that WW1 happens as in OTL, what would have led to the new rump Austria getting to keep at least a decent chunk of the Sudetenland, say most of it except for the Northern Moravia section. Geographically it would look like a top heavy letter C placed on top of Austria, and would...

  13. Tear not this Reich asunder

    I found this very long letter from one of President Dewey's European diplomats written in the early 1950's while on sabbatical doing European history research at the Silesian University of Breslau, and thought it could add much to our understanding of those dramatic events of September 1939 when...

  14. the most realistic timeframe for German Soviet armistice in WW2

    There are some good reasons for Germany not to have taken a Soviet armistice request in most of 1941 (it looked good for Germany for most of that year). But what about in the time period between Stalingrad and Kursk. I remember reading somewhere that Stalin was so impressed that after Stalingrad...

  15. German invasion of France a week earlier

    Lets say Germany invades France and the low countries a week earlier in 1940. In this scenario Chamberlain is still PM, and the question is whether the imminent move in parliament to overthrow him still happens, or does everyone rally round the leader. Assuming Chamberlain stays on in early...

  16. Spanish civil war starts a little differently

    In some cases it was pretty arbitrary who won control of different regions of Spain at the start of the civil war. I believe Saragossa was considered an Anarchist stronghold, but was taken right away by Franco's forces. Also, in Sevilla General Quiepo de Llano bluffed his way into taking the...

  17. Russian Constituent Assembly elected July 1917

    I believe the initial plans of the Russian Provisional Government were for elections for the Constituent Assembly to be held in the summer of 1917, but Kerensky and others in the government agreed to a fatal delay at the behest of the Cadet Party. Assuming the initial plan went forward and such...

  18. How close did Chamberlain come to staying PM

    Any thoughts on how many votes in the Commons Chamberlain was hoping for on May 8, 1940 for him to stay in office? I believe about 38 Tories voted against him and 20 or so abstained. At what number would Chamberlain have had second thoughts, or at least decided to try to cling to office for...

  19. Lincoln faces a much smaller confederacy

    Lets say that the initial secession fever that grips the deep south after Lincoln's election isn't as strong and only South Carolina, and maybe one or two other states, and Georgia isn't one of them, have actually seceeded by the time Lincoln takes over. My guess is in this scenario Lincoln...

  20. DBWI: German not the official language of Israel

    I know this is farfetched, but I'm trying to imagine a situation where German isn't the official language, along with Hebrew of course, of Israel. So much of the initial impetus for German is obvious. The modern Zionist pioneer Herzl was a German native speaker, and so much of the funding of the...
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