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  1. Map Thread XXII

    Looking forward to this! It's very rare to see California-centered alternate histories and ones with relatively unique technological paths with a late 18th Century POD

  2. 1973 Chile Coup Happens But No Pinochet Dictatorship

    The UP never won a majority in either the 1970 Presidential election (which was sent to Congress and Allende got elected thanks to Christian Democratic backing whose support he eventually lost) or the 1973 Congressional election.

  3. 1973 Chile Coup Happens But No Pinochet Dictatorship

    What would have happened if Augusto Pinochet and other Chilean military officers had launched the September 11th 1973 coup that overthrow Salvador Allende but had relinquished power relatively quickly and allowed (at least mostly) free elections within a few months or at most a year? While I...

  4. WI: The Post-War Baby Boom Never Happens

    A workable POD might be worse economic conditions for sometime after World War II. Its hard to prevent something like an economic boom when you are the only intact major economy on Earth but perhaps you could have an extended postwar recession and then another downturn in the 50s (earlier oil...

  5. How would a victorious Confederacy treat immigration?

    This depends on the political situation and coalitions of an independent Confederacy. The planter elites were relatively "cosmopolitan" and at least tolerated Catholics and even Jews (see Judah P Benjamin) as fellow whites so if an independent CSA remains dominated by them, they would welcome...

  6. Map Thread XXI

    Nice work! I guess all the other powers oppose Italian sway over Iran?

  7. Perot wins in 1992. What does 1996 look like?

    With an unorthodox candidate like Perot succeeding in winning an election, there'd be a push within both the Democratic and Republican parties to run similar "celebrity" candidates. Colin Powell would be the obvious choice for the Republican Party and he may win if he does indeed run. Donald...

  8. Decades of Darkness

    A stronger parallel imo is OTL Portugal which saw a military coup to overthrow the authoritarian regime that had been established by Salazar but abandoned any political involvement once the transition to liberal democracy had been completed. New England was a stable, prosperous liberal democracy...

  9. Military dictatorship in FRG

    This would almost certainly provoke a mass civil disobedience campaign by the German left including large-scale protests as well as a general strike by labour unions. Even if the West German junta offers the most benign agenda, Willy Brandt and the like will resist another 1933 to the last...

  10. AHC: Native American Industrialization

    More plausible is an indigenous majority (and identifying) state breaking away from the Spanish Empire later on and then industrializing. Say Tupac Amaru's revolt in colonial Peru succeeds in 1781. Alternatively, have at least some of the Latin American states that break away in the 1810s wars...

  11. Decades of Darkness

    What makes you suggest this? The lack of publications after the 1950s in the TL?

  12. Decades of Darkness

    Out of boredom I wrote an outline of an AH within an AH in the vein of Grasshopper Lies of Heavy called "Generations of Grief", which is an alternate history based on the premise that Thomas Jefferson doesn't die in 1809 and New England stays within the Union from the perspective of someone...

  13. Decades of Darkness

    I finally was able to read through the entirety of the Decades of Darkness in the past few weeks, though I knew about the broad outline of the TL and had skimmed significant portions of it before. It is truly a monumental work and one of the most elaborate fictional universes ever created. Some...

  14. Effects of Typing Being Inefficient

    Suppose that due to cultural blindspots regarding keyboard layout and typing education that it is no more efficient for the vast majority of people to type on a typewriter than to write by hand despite typewriters being invented. This cultural blindspot continues for generation even when and if...

  15. AHC: Union and CSA generals for war in 1885

    Obviously a stereotype and he would only be 27 years old, but I definitely could see Theodore Roosevelt quickly rising up the ranks.

  16. What would a country formed after a successful slave revolt in the American South be called?

    In one of the old AHTG worlds, a country founded by a slave revolt in the American South is named Jubilee. Given the prominence of biblical imagery and rhetoric in African American culture, Zion or even Israel could be plausible names.

  17. The Pale Horse: The Northwest Montana Insurgency and its Aftermath (1987-2002)

    I shudder to think what an American Beslan will look like.

  18. Realistic 'For Want of a Nail'

    One of the most bizarre errors in FWOAN is that the Ottoman Sultan is constantly referred to as the Shah. It's such a strange error to me since even basic encylopaedias and history texts would indicate the title of the Ottoman ruler.

  19. Realistic 'For Want of a Nail'

    I think you can have a USM equivalent but it would be less *Texan Anglos storming into Mexico City and closer to a stronger, more stable Mexico with large Anglo populations in its northern areas slowly creating a bilingual society. Andrew Jackson could still end up President of Mexico in this...

  20. Consequences of an 18th Century (Pre-ARW) "Great Reform Act" Equivalent in Britain

    As sort of a companion to the other thread, what would be the consequences of an earlier, even if a weaker version, of a Great Reform Act in Great Britain that eliminated rotten boroughs, gave representation to newer population centers, and expanded the franchise prior to the American...
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