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  1. Alexander the Good Enough and the Federation of Poleis

    An idea I've had floating around for over a decade springs from the nature of the League of Corinth, Philip II's system for managing his hegemony over Greece. What if events had conspired so that instead of being a short term expedient soon dwarfed by Alexander's empire, the League evolved into...

  2. AHC: "Cortez" figure somewhere in Europe during Black Death

    The initial effects of the Bubonic Plague on 14th century Europe were huge and dramatic. They were also remarkably similar in demographic terms to the 16th century measles/smallpox epidemics in Mesoamerica and the Andes. But in the former, we can speak of the reduction of class barriers and the...

  3. WI Charles V dies shortly before settling inheritance?

    I've been interested in alternate partitions of the unwieldly empire under Charles V for some time. Particularly, the pragmatic sanction assigning the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands to his son Philip shaped virtually all of European history over the next few centuries. Rather than...

  4. AHC - America on the "opposite side" of a Vietnam War

    So I have been blowing through the Ken Burns series on the war to help deepen my grasp on Cold War history. I'm in the process of finishing up teaching the period (high school level, English (as in England) system to a small class. I may have a novel idea. The oddity of the US being implacably...

  5. From Lithuania to Leningrad? Original Nazi-Soviet Pact borders in 1940

    Search function says it hasn't been discussed, which may indicate I'm doing it wrong. What if the Nazis occupied Lithuania - and the Soviets more of Poland - as had been the original division of the spoils in the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement? For one, a Polish SSR is likely to be created...

  6. Be First, Be Smarter, or Cheat: Averting Chinese Exclusion

    You'd think it was Operation Sealion. After refreshing myself with a few searches of past threads over the years, it's striking that the Chinese Exclusion Act has come up a fair number of times, always with assertions of its absolute inevitability, never with substantial examination of that...

  7. AH Challenge: Could Diadochi follow Napoleon's death?

    Could Napoleon's empire and vassals fragment after his death into warring warlord states more divided than OTL 1815? Even to the extent of dividing France itself? General thought: Suppose after the 4th coalition Spain doesn't become a running sore for France, presumably avoiding a Bonaparte in...

  8. No Air Too Pure: The Somerset Decision Averted

    Chattel slavery was both legal and practiced in England, for a time, then after 1772 it came to be absolutely and irrevocably banned. Triggered by a single court decision, and driven by widespread moral instincts, slavery became a concern external to Britain, and stayed that way forever. For...

  9. The (Literal) War Between the States

    I've been taking the first week of Summer vacation to power through part of my massive backlog of 19th century US history books. Reading @Red Galiray's TL and rereading @TheKnightIrish inspired me to pick up Tried by War, about Lincoln's learning curve as commander-in-chief. This quote stood...

  10. The Left SR War

    Sort of a TLIAD situation, if that terminology is still a thing. Suppose the Latvian Riflemen have a slightly different war from 1915 on. Nothing earth-shattering - just a different set of casualties in this battle, a few different promotions, certain men survive, a smattering of different...

  11. Nationalism without Monolingualism

    TL;DR - Could "normal" nationalism in a "modern" world be multilingual? OTL bias makes certain countries look a bit weird. Iran, for example. When I was in my early years getting into history, I came across a linguistic map of the place, and became awfully confused. The place is...

  12. Spirochete Plagues in Pre-Contact Americas

    Annoyingly, we still don't know whether Syphilis originated in the Americas, and was returned to the Old World by Columbus' first voyage. We may never actually know. ....But we do know some things. Things that may be relevant to Alternate Histories of the Americas. There's seems to be room to...

  13. Great Oregon and the New West

    While for historical reasons the original Thirteen Colonies differed dramatically both in size and population, this trend was not expected to continue. Indeed for generations the Congress of the young republic actively avoided any corresponding variety among newly created states. While...

  14. American population without ARW?

    Finding estimates of how many Americans died or emigrated during the Revolutionary War period and early Republic is relatively straightforward. The larger question, though - American population growth absent the Revolution - is something I haven't seen worked out in much detail. What...

  15. Watts riots early: Sino-Soviet rapprochement?

    Source: Voxpedia - Watts riots The Watts riots[1] took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 1 to 7, 1965. On August 1, 1965, an African-American motorist was arrested for drunk driving. A minor roadside argument broke out, and then escalated into a fight. The community...

  16. AHC: Republic of China (Szechwan)

    Through the hardest parts of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the core power center of the Nationalist regime remained in the valley of Sichuan. Regardless of Japan's overwhelming advantages in other areas, geographically the province was simply impossible to reach. With Chiang Kai-shek's (Jiang...

  17. Not a Missile in Cuba

    Suppose Khrushchev offers Fidel Castro all support for Cuban sovereignty short of basing nuclear missiles there. What knock-on effects could we expect? [1] To what extent would there still be a confrontation between the US and USSR over the Soviets shipping in military supplies to shore up...

  18. The Final Frontier: Stalin Demands Kars

    Recently, I've been reading various summaries of Turkey's internal affairs during the interbellum and World War II. It struck me that, under the cover of Molotov-Ribbentrop and the wars in Europe and Asia, Stalin made attempts to recover every Tsarist territorial loss but one. While he took...

  19. WI Soviets drop the ball in the Caucasus

    There are an awful lot of threads discussing German options for operations in the Caucasus campaign - I just checked - but few of them seem to offer significant improvements on the events of our TL. The one obvious smart choice might have been to give up months earlier and salvage what they...

  20. One Vote PODs

    I've come across a number of turning points in history which hinged on a single vote going one way or another. In some cases, that single vote might have dramatically altered the fate of nations - Trotsky's waffling and Brest-Litovsk, for example (although that's a matter for another forum). I...
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