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  1. The First Voyage of Erik the Red: Vinland

    Just yet another person taking a poke at a more permanent settlement of the Norse in North America. As in OTL the Greenland colonies were by dint of geography and climate abandoned as being fairly terrible places to settle given the lack of biodiversity and resources that worsened during the...

  2. Earliest Possible Collapse Of The Byzantines?

    I know we have seen plenty of threads with the Byzantines surviving longer but I’m curious what would lay the ground work for a plausible early collapse of the Byzantines?

  3. The Hetmanate’s Success in 1650

    I am reading “The Gatekeepers of Europe: A History of Ukraine” by Sergio Plokhy and I am spying an interesting point of divergence in 1650. From 1649 to the summer of 1651 the Cossack Hetmanate under Khmelnytsky is on the rise from strength to strength - managing during the timeframe to turn...

  4. House of Moctezuma Rules In Mexico

    In Spain the Ducal House of Moctezuma de Tultengo still exists as a noble peerage - having been established through the line of Moctezuma’s son Pedro de Moctezuma and granted in 1627 to the original emperor’s great grandson - Pedro Tesifon Moctezuma. Around the timeframe of the Mexican War of...

  5. Mutual Disease: Old World Suffers Same As New World

    I was curious if there has been any timelines or work focusing on the Colombian exchange which spread such devastating diseases to the New World that resulted in such a profound social complex to the Amerindians also having a similar effect on the Old World. Of course in OTL diseases from the...

  6. President William “Old Rosy” Rosecrans - Lincoln’s Successor

    There was a short timeframe where Rosecrans, following his infamous defeat at Chickamunga, was considered to be President Lincoln’s running mate in the 1864 Election. A telegram was sent to him by Lincoln and a reply was sent but it never made it to Lincoln. Most historians believe it was...

  7. Vinland: Further South

    I explored a slightly similar idea with my Spanish America TL. Where de Ayllon and his colonists traveled further north and got along well in the Chesapeake Bay. Now what would the chances be for the Norse to discover and settle further south? Say Mass. Bay or Hudson Valley or even the Delaware...

  8. California: From British Prison Colony to Dominion

    An idea I had over yonder in the Latin California thread. What if the British owned California and used it as a colony? First as a debtor prison then as an actual colony following the discovery of gold and so forth. The route to the colony I believe would be easier or just as hard as the route...

  9. Wittelsbach Spain?

    In my Bahia TL (Spanish North America) I had the Wittelsbachs come to power in Spain during the Spanish Succession crisis of the 17th century. Joseph Ferdinand was a contender for inheritance of Spain from Charles II but the five year old’s death from smallpox in 1699 pretty much ruined that...

  10. DC With the Virginia Side

    Question: How would the District have developed if it had retained the Virginia half?

  11. The Gallican Empire: Rome Survives in Gaul
    Threadmarks: The First Gallican Emperor: Part 1

    I figure, why don't we have an Byzantine Empire for the West? ---- Imperator Caesar Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus Augustus had been troubled by a rival in Gaul since 260 when the German legions raised among themselves Imperator Caesar Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus Pius Felix...

  12. East and West: One Nation, Two Republics.

    This idea sprang mostly from an interesting scenario I saw on the Imaginary Maps Reddit - where in the future the United States has gone the way of the Roman Empire splitting itself into three distinct governments to rule over the United States territory (with varying degrees of success and...

  13. The 2nd Punic War Delayed

    There can be some argument that Hannibal decided to attack Rome and their allies too early. In particular as the Carthaginian were still developing their Spanish territories, fighting Iberian tribes (who leapt at the opportunity to hold down reinforcements for Hannibal’s campaigns in Italy) and...

  14. Parles-tu Francais? French Canada TL

    Now, those of you who have read my “Vive le Canada” TL know I have a thing for French Speaking Canada. That TL was enjoyable but I feel I let it run off the rails a bit with how OP French Canada became. So I want to take a look at an Independent French Canada again but from a different POD -...

  15. Expanded Texas Settlement of Ex-Slaves In Texas

    Reading up a bit on the Mexican Underground article and it states that as early as 1831 at least one Mexican Senator was suggesting settling Ex-Slaves in Texas to prevent an American filibuster - echoed by then Colonel Juan Alamonte. Obviously this didn’t pan out likely because of the timing of...

  16. WI: Philip II of Spain Drowns In 1556

    Reading “America” by Robert Goodwin mentions one Pedro Menedez de Alvies (who would go on found St Augustine) won great esteem in Philip’s eyes when in 1556 he was in charge of the fleet that brought Philip to Spain following his father’s abdication. Apparently having been born in the area off...

  17. Two Jerseys - Keep East and West Jersey Seperate

    Likely a more obscure scenario, but how could New Jersey remain separated colonies that eventually become two separate states in the United States? We have the more Quaker oriented West Jersey and the more Scottish influenced East Jersey which existed as separate administrations until Queen Anne...

  18. “Back in the USSA” Ending

    Well, more like the ending of the last short story in the anthology. I have no clue what that ending was about. It reads like Godzilla came up out of the ocean and started to wreck everything.

  19. African-American Majority States of the Great Plains

    Ive been reading “Lincoln’s Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy” by Richard Current and passage came up. When talking about Unionists in North Carolina, most of whom were poor white farmers, they had a general support of freedom for the slaves but expressed a very descisive interest...

  20. Hamilton Gunned Down By Convicts During Constituional Convention

    A friend of mine regularly writes historical articles for his job and journals here and there. Apparently for one he is writing now he discovered that Hamilton was almost gunned down by convicts in Philadelphia during the early days of the Constitutional Convention. What would have been the...
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