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  1. WI: Anglo-Saxons lose the Battle of Brunanburh?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brunanburh In 937, a coalition of Norse, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish petty kingdoms and chiefdoms invaded England to try to keep Æthelstan from unifying it, but were beaten back at the Battle of Brunanburh. What if they had defeated the Anglo-Saxons...

  2. AHC/WI: A more Western-oriented Confederacy

    I’ve been considering a hypothetical scenario where the CSA is oriented more towards the areas west of the Mississippi. Perhaps Virginia votes not to secede and therefore keeps Tennessee and possibly North Carolina and Arkansas in the Union. But on the other hand, Kansas is admitted as a slave...

  3. WI: Crack cocaine synthesis process never discovered?

    I’m aware that the process of making crack from regular cocaine is fairly simple and doesn’t really require any chemistry knowledge. But what if, despite this, it had never been discovered—essentially, what if crack cocaine had never come to exist? How would society/culture and politics be...

  4. DBWI: Can someone help me identify the POD for a wikibox I found?

    I saw a really weird set of wikiboxes while I was browsing the forum the other day about a “First World War”. They were about some massive global conflict that occurred in the late 1910s, involving countries from all over Europe and Asia and even a few from the Americas. But it was a repost, and...

  5. AHC: Alliance of New World republics

    This challenge requires essentially a Pan-Americanism wank: at least some of the revolutionary republics of the Americas (Haiti, Gran Colombia, the FRCA, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico after the abolition of its monarchy) must form some sort of defensive pact, alliance, or mutual aid...

  6. PC: A collapsing Confederacy recruits women to shore up their reserves

    Imagine a TL in which 1863 goes even better for the Union than IOTL, possibly resulting in them taking Richmond and forcing the CSA to move its capital to Atlanta. The South is in dire straits, Lee’s army still exists but is in full retreat, and the Confederate government can see the end of...

  7. WI: Woodrow Wilson’s stroke happens a year earlier?

    IOTL, Wilson suffered a severe stroke in October 1919 and his wife, Edith, took over many of his presidential duties. What if that stroke had instead happened in October 1918, during the last days of World War I? There are two possible outcomes to consider here: As OTL, but earlier. Wilson...

  8. AHC: Indian dynasty ruling over China

    A challenge that’s simply stated but probably quite difficult to accomplish: with a POD no earlier than the founding of the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC, have China be ruled for an extended period of time (at least 25 years) by a dynasty with ethnocultural origins anywhere in the Indian subcontinent...

  9. AHC/WI: Successful Decembrist Revolt

    In December of 1825, when Tsar Nicholas I inherited the throne of Russia, a small liberal faction of the Russian army rose up in revolt against his reactionary rule. Their uprising was crushed IOTL, but what if it hadn’t been? Could it have spread to more of the army? If it had been successful...

  10. WI: Gandhi survives his assassination attempt?

    As most of you are probably aware, IOTL Gandhi was shot and killed in 1948 by a Hindu nationalist. What if he had survived the attack (either by the assassin being stopped before he could fire or by being wounded nonfatally)? What would be the effects on India and the world if he had survived...

  11. WI: No 1983 Lebanon barracks bombing?

    How would the US’s relationships with Iran, Syria, and Israel be affected? Would the US keep forces in Lebanon without the loss of support caused by the bombing? Would Hezbollah’s formation be delayed or prevented?

  12. AHC: Britain and America as allies in a war between 1815-1895

    During the mid-19th century, Anglo-American relations were often chilly, with repeated war scares over issues like the Oregon Territory and the Trent Affair. How could Anglo-American relations have been better—potentially even good enough to fight a war on the same side?

  13. AHC: More battles in WWI take place outside of Europe

    World War I was one of the deadliest wars in human history, but apart from the campaigns against the Ottomans and a few minor battles in southern Africa, the vast majority of the fighting seems to have been concentrated in Europe. How can that be changed? What POD might lead to a WWI with...

  14. AHC/WI: Belgium/Leopold II sells the Congo

    Pretty much what the title says. I understand that this is highly unlikely because of how profitable the colony was for Leopold, but could it be possible for Belgium to sell their Congo territories to another country? What conditions might lead to the sale? Who might some potential buyers be...

  15. With Calm Thought And Purpose: The Presidency of Joshua Chamberlain

    Hello everyone! Some of you may remember that a while back, I posted a thread about Joshua Chamberlain becoming president. After extensive research on Chamberlain and the politics of the early 1880s, this timeline is the result of some of the ideas from that thread. Technically our POD here is...
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  16. WI: Grant assassinated by a white supremacist?

    Ulysses Grant cracked down on the Klu Klux Klan during his presidency, keeping them from reforming until the 1910s. What if, in revenge for that policy and for Reconstruction in general, he had been shot by a white supremacist? Would the death of not one, but two, of the Union's greatest heroes...

  17. PC/WI: President Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain?

    I was looking for possible alternate Republican presidents during the Gilded Age, and I came upon an interesting fact. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the hero of Little Round Top, went on to become Governor of Maine after the Civil War. He eventually left the political sphere and lived life as a...

  18. Can anyone point me to an early work of proto-Alternate History?

    A few months back, I saw a forum post somewhere on AH.com about an Alternate History book written by an Englishman in the 18th century, before the American Revolution, about the rise of the British Empire. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find it since. I recall that it summarized the 18th...

  19. AHC: Earliest possible feminist movement

    It's always seemed odd to me that feminism took such a long time to develop IOTL, especially given how many pro-women's-rights writers of both genders there have been historically. What's the earliest possible time at which a large-scale movement for the equality (or at least expanded rights) of...

  20. WI: Charles II bequeaths the throne of Spain to James II's son?

    IOTL, Charles was persuaded by his ministers to sign a will making Philip of Anjou the heir to the Spanish crown, conflicting with the existing claim of Archduke Charles of Austria and kicking off the War of the Spanish Succession. What if he, in a fit of insanity, had instead signed the throne...
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