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Experiment Aflame - an Alternate American History The day was bright and promising. The sky was blue with wisps of clouds, the smell of the sea wafted by with the cool tug of the wind. Dozens of artillery cannons flanked either side of General George Washington, his staff and several other...

Ok so seeing as today is the day of the attack I decided to whip up an alternate history scenario. The video below is more to set it up. - - What happens if due to better intelligence-gathering the United States knows about the attack on Pearl Harbor some time before it happens. So the loss of...

Hi all, I've been visiting this site for quite some time and have always been interested in alternate history. One of my favorite periods to think about is the early United States, specifically, when the Articles of Confederation were falling to pieces. I firmly believe that there are numerous...

After the separation of the thirteen colonies with the United Kingdom and the rest of the British Empire all the colonies followed their own path as independent states. But recently after seeing a meeting of "Pan-Americanists" (just out of curiosity) I saw them talking about an idea, the "United...

(Edit) Our Pod begins with Dewey winning in 1948, as expected. As a result, Democrats blame their loss on the recent adoption of the civil rights plank and subsequent abandonment of their southern base. How does this effect 1952 onward? Credit to interpoltomo for the change

Say that Britain in the 1840s has strategic or economic interests in California and sees it as best for them to prevent a wider, violent conflict between the U.S. and Mexico over the region. Could they possibly act as a mediator over the situation and prevent the Mexican-American War? Could...

Prologue: Not a European War. 9th of July, 1755 --- " But [General Braddock] had too much self-confidence, too high an opinion of the validity of regular troops, and too mean a one of both Americans and Indians." -Benjamin Franklin, "A Vain Remonstrance with General Braddock"* The almost fifty...

So yeah, what if each State in the USA had the same relationships with each other as the Princely States in the Holy Roman Empire? Each State would provide a candidate for Presidency after each term and people would not only be voting for the person, but the State in which the capital of the USA...

THE UNWILLING KING - Yet Another Monarchist America TL - - Hello everyone! Been awhile since I last made a timeline, so I guess consider this a general Q&A post before I formally begin this timeline! I was going to make a timeline called E Uni Plures (Out of One, Many), but I kinda got burnt...

In 1819, Massachusetts agreed to allow Maine formal secession from the state after decades of tension with Boston. What if, in an alternate timeline, Maine was allowed to secede from Massachusetts instead of becoming a state in the US, became an independent republic. Would Monroe be able to...

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

IIRC, after victory in the American Civil War, the dominant Republican party of the United States provisioned for the reorganization of the western territories and their admission into the Union as pro-GOP states (after some gerrymandering, of course). So, assume that the ACW is delayed for...

The Spanish-American War of 1873-1875 Part One As the Virginius Crisis was unfolding there was only one figure on either side of the Atlantic that was working calmly for a peaceful end to the crisis that the capture of the Virginius and executions of a number of the crew of that ship had...

If somehow the British were to take possession of a land in what we know now as Maine from the Treaty of Ghent after the War of 1812 and and later absorbed into the Canadian Confederation, what do you think it would've been called?

If General Richard Montgomery doesn't die and wins the Battle of Quebec in 1775, then a few major changes happen: Francophone, Catholic Quebec likely becomes part of the early independent colonies. Would they be an independent state? Would they become part of the new Union? Would they be...

The US civil war lasted from 1861-1865. But what if it had lasted longer? How long could the south have realistically hold on for and what if anything at all would the result of that be on the US?

Presume if Michèle Flournoy ran for the oval office and manage to persuade the media and the public interest to vote for him, and after the inauguration, how would it play out differently under a Flournoy administration? Please, just please don't ask me why your thinking she couldn't able to...

Presume if Leon Panetta ran for the oval office and manage to persuade the media and the public interest to vote for him, and after the inauguration, how would it play out differently under a Panetta administration? Please don't ask me why your thinking he couldn't able to nor have any interest...

Presume if Colin Powell ran for the oval office and manage to persuade the media and the public interest to vote for him, and after the inauguration, how would it play out differently under a Powell administration? Colin Powell, (born April 5, 1937), is a United States statesman and a retired...

Here's something I never thought I'd post a thread about: population growth. For a timeline that I'm working on, I have medical technology progressing more quickly from a combination of the following: higher funding from both government and private sources, faster computer chips leading to...