balkanized america

Prologue: An Old Colony with New Challenges For several decades, Massachusetts was regarded as one of, if not the outright most important of the English colonies in North America. Massachusetts was the site of one the first permanent English settlements in North America outside of Virginia...

First to screw the anglosphere. We'll say that to start with the Spanish armada, while failing to conquer England, does manage to successfully burn down London and major port cities before being driven out. After that butterflies curse the English with a line of incompetent kings unable to...

I finally have enough to start posting my revised timeline! Most of the majors changes are not going to occur until Part IV. But there are a few minor ones before that. The revised timeline is following the same format. Footnotes (marked with lower case letters) will be written in ATL as will...

OTL, the American revolution was the first time Britain lost a major colony, and it created a nation that went on to dominate the world after getting its regional matters sorted out. But before that, the American colonies were rather disparate, with economic interests but no major common...

The period between 1787 and 1815 was perhaps the most unstable period in American history due to the government being new and the people unsure of how it would be functioning alongside political divisions between federalism and anti-federalism. Your challenge is to have at least one state secede...

Hello, I had previously abandoned TL-1828: A Southern-Less USA because I felt like it was just a proto-CSA TL, and I was mostly interested in what a CSA victory would look like at the time as my primary topic of interest on here. However, now that I've moved past that and found that the colonial...

So yeah, this is a redux of this: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-sun-never-rises-if-the-confederacy-won.479233/. I originally put it on hiatus after creating a timeline with a different but similar premise because I decided that this was too poorly written to continue. Then...

I made a timeline in which the Soviet Union wins the cold war. The PoD happens in August 1918. In our timeline, Vladimir Lenin was shot after giving a public speech. However, in this timeline he manages to dodge the bullet. Because Lenin never gets shot, he lives long enough to kick Stalin out...

I’ve seen a lot of discussion about the effect that a failed American Revolution would have on the development of republicanism and liberalism, typically arguing that these ideologies would ultimately be hurt or even delegitimized, but a discussion that I don’t think I’ve ever seen is what would...

A thread for @the 14th doctor's project to prevent clogging up the WIP thread.

The Philadelphia convention “My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them to speak the language of ‘We, the People,’ instead of ‘We, the States’?” -Patrick Henry...