world history

Made a Nation: America and the World after an alt-Trent Affair “We may have our own opinions about slavery; we may be for or against the South, but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and the other leaders of the South have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have...

The idea here is to essentially provide a list of historiographical works that you feel provide a good overview of an historical period and/or of the history of an area. Due to recently vacationing in Athens I whent on something of a binge of ancient greek history so I will start the ball with...

Located in the Eastern coast of Nova Scotia, is one of the largest city in the Canadian Maritime with population of over 400,000 in total. And yet despite of that, if you're comparing to other major cities in New England (such as Boston and even Portland) and even other major cities in Canada...

On July 20 1969 the United States of America landed the first manned mission on the surface of the moon and in so doing winning the space race. After that all manned missions have been done in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) but what if the space race continued. How would a much longer space race have...

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-world-without-winston-churchill.164360/ Without Churchill, it would highly likely that Britain would made a peace deal with Nazi Germany. Neville Chamberlain, a predecessor of Churchill, due to his illness, he would still resign as prime...

What if the Queen was assassinated? What if Marcus Sarjeant had not just intended to startle the Queen at trooping the colour on the 13th June 1981 however actually kill her and was successful in killing her? How would this change British history and World history? What style of reign would...

On the 10th June 1840 Edward Oxford attempted to assassinate a four month pregnant Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert, however he missed and all three survived. There are seven possible ways the assassinated attempt may have played out. 1.Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their four...

Apparently this was found in a Iowa school planner, this is obviously incorrect, however how would history have to change for this to be correct? It looks like the Ottoman Empire survived or perhaps Turkey created their own empire after the Ottoman one fell, or perhaps the Middle East united...

Just a fun little idea I've been thinking about. There are tons of threads about alternate Israels and other ATL countries that post-diaspora Jews could call their home. But there's one other common Euroamerican nation that is similarly the result of a (relatively) recent diaspora from Asia and...