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  1. WI the Republic survives

    The end of the republic came down largely to a breakdown in the rule of law, and the ability of an individual to directly wield the military for political power. Tiberius Gracchus illegally sought to be elected as tribune for a second consecutive year, but sought to do so because his enemies had...

  2. WI the Republic survives

    The republic died for many reasons, but it might not have required too much of a change of the OTL for it to have survived much longer. The reason Sulla was able to march on Rome is that his soldiers were loyal to him, rather than to Rome. This was due to the way in which the Roman army became a...

  3. The Roaring 20's....Alternative Scenarios....

    I think Coolidge in 1928 is the most interresting possibility. Hoover did almost all the wrong things in response to the depression, which had a lot to do with it becoming the great depression. FDR did all the wrong things as well (or at least many of them), but on a somewhat grander scale...

  4. A African Hong Kong

    The peoples of SubSaharan Africa were the victims (or arguably the beneficiaries, depending on your views of Civilization) of Geography. They were largely, though not entirely, cut off from the Civilizations (and ideas thereof) of Eurasia and North Africa, as well as from each other. (The...

  5. United Kingdom invited to join United States...

    Short of near anhilation, no, nothing would induce the Brits to join the United States. Remember, they are every last bit as nationalistic as Americans. I don't find it hard to imagine that other nations might wish to join the U.S. But it isn't going to be a nation that fairly recently ruled...

  6. June 1914

    Perhaps Nicholas now restrains himself. After all, he wasn't really in favor of Monarchs being assassinated. But Franz Ferdinand was close enough to the real thing that that alone should have given Nicholas reason to consider Austria's position in a sympathetic light. But in any event, one...

  7. 2000 and 2004 election results reversed

    Let's go a bit further (though granted, not what this thread asks for) and say that Gore won. 9-11 still happens. Maybe a different day, or different level of success, but it happens. Afghanistan is still liberated. There are almost certainly more American casualties, but this is not a knock on...

  8. Stronger West- no Cold War?

    The allies could have taken more chances in the west, making a much quicker push into Germany than in the OTL. Also, if Hitler had been convinced to allow his Generals to fall back to natural defensive positions in the East rather than insisting on holding every last inch, the war could have...

  9. President Huey Pierce Long

    There wasn't much of a defense industry in Long's day, and major corporations tend to put their money behind a candidate they believe can win. Someone would have gotten behind Long once he had shown himself to be viable. And non-establishment, popularist candidates had won the white house before...

  10. Principate Dies With Augustus

    The republic (more of an oligarchy than a democracic republic) had always been based on the rule of law. Respect for the rule of law had long been dying in the republic, certainly since the time the senate began to assassinate tribunes at least. By the time of Augustus the rule of law was...

  11. Mormons Settle in Nevada

    I believe it remains the longest March in American military history. As far as the casualties for the battle of the bulls, two men were injured. Things went worse for the bulls. A group of the battalion who made it to California wound up employed by a couple of business partners by the names...

  12. Bigger US army at ACW's start

    The problem with the Union army early on was one of leadership. As it was, there were opportunities for the North to win quickly, or at least to gain some huge early victories. But the generals didn't take them. McClennan in particular was a terrific organizer and a great strategist, but a very...

  13. President Huey Pierce Long

    Huey Long was arguably the gravest threat American democracy faced since Lincoln fired McClellan, and McClellan's men offered to follow him to Washington to stage a coup. I don't know that he could have beaten Roosevelt, but given the time, and given that America was then full of the very type...

  14. Mormons Settle in Nevada

    It was mob violence, that sent my ancesters out west, not the US army. The main contact the Mormon pioneers had with the US army while crossing the plains was when the Army asked Brigham Young for, and got 500 volunteers to fight in the Mexican-American war in 1847. I'd consider that quite...

  15. Meta: Historical Delicacy of Soviet Collapse

    It wasn't just the failed Marxist economy that lead to the Soviet fall. It was their attempt to support a Super Power class military on a failed Marxist economy. Neither Cuba, nor even China ever really attempted anything similar. Gorbachev was important because he had the courage to believe...

  16. What if Ronald Reagan was assassinated?

    No Reagan, no Gorbachev. He was chosen because the Soviets needed someone who could deal with Reagan. Much of what Gorbachev did was an attempt to deal with the economic problems the USSR faced. He decided to trust that the west really didn't want to invade, which meant that the Soviets could...

  17. Ike dies early

    If Eisenhower dies off a bit sooner, say before he has the CIA to overthrow the government in Iran and leave the Shah in power, the Islamic revolution of 1979 doesn't happen, and we have nothing remotely resembling the terrorism movement which torments the muslim world today. In fact, Iran may...

  18. 1944. Maquis successful

    no. You're talking about diverting enough forces from fighting the Wehrmacht to conquer a nation about the size of France (in land area), with a lot of the fighting probably taking place in the Pyrineese. And remember, the allies were taking a lot of casualties in October of 1944.

  19. AH Challenge: America never segregated

    President Grant had a plan to annex the Dominican Republic. The idea was to give former slaves a place to go. His intention, however, was not that most should go there. The idea was that White plantation owners in the south needed black labor, and knew they needed it. If Blacks were given an...

  20. Blacks remain predominantly Republican

    If you avoid the great depression, or at least ameliorate it (certainly achievable, but that's another issue), the Republicans would have been in a much better position politically throughout the middle part of the century. They may well have been able, although slowly, to have gotten their...
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