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  1. AHC: Prince Hall

    For this challenge, have Prince Hall become a more prominent figure and possibly a politician-he had the right background and was highly regarded as a writer and orator.

  2. AHC: no Japanese internment

    What it says on the tin.

  3. Earlier development of atomic energy.

    With a PoD that is reasonable(no "Hellenistic Scientists scale up steam toy and suddenly it's zepplinpunk in 1500") speed up the development of atomic energy and research.) Assuming development sped to a reasonable but noticable degree what consequences result? Do we see changes in disease...

  4. AHC: Save the Jews of Salonika

    Your challenge: Prevent the Nazis from destroying the Jewish communities of Greece, especially the Romaniotes and the Jewish community of Salonika. You can do this either by writing a scenario in which the Nazi invasion of Greece is stopped, Greece raises enough of a stink that the Nazis don't...

  5. AHC: Multiple indigenous states in the Americas

    Is it possible for more than one indigenous state to survive or reform in the Americas? I know Chan Santa Cruz had surprisingly good chances of survival, but are there other places in the Americas where indigenous states could survive to the present(for instance, could the Mapuche have stayed...

  6. A better-surviving Fatimid caliphate?

    Can we have a Fatimid caliphate that lasts longer or at least is more stable for longer(obvious PoDs: Al-Hakim being less nutty and not getting himself assasinated, managing to break the "and now, let's import mercenaries of questionable loyalty who pick fights with each other" streak that...

  7. WI: The Battle of The Crater is a success?

    I suppose this has been discussed ad nauseam, but it's still an interesting question. Suppose that the African-American troops who were originally trained for the battle are sent in. Is it a reasonable assumption that they succeed in moving around the edge of the crater and rolling up the...

  8. WI "Abstract Expressionist" painting never emerges

    The Abstract Expressionist wave the formed in New York after WWII is widely(if inaccurately) seen as the central event of postwar American art if not Western art in general. But what if it doesn't happen, either because the surrealists who lived in New York don't go there during WW2(or for a...

  9. PC/WI: Early Tokugawa collapse

    From some recent reading of mine, it seems that the Tokugawa shogunate was undergoing some quite serious crises(famines, the eruption of Mt. Asama in 1783 that worsened the famine, the burning of Kyoto in 1790, and the shoguns Ienari and Iheharu being somewhat mediocre at best) in the late 18th...

  10. AHC/WI: Jordan doesn't join the Six-Day War?

    My understanding is that Jordan was not all that enthusiastic about entering the Six-Day War. Let's say either Israel works out a non-agression pact with Jordan, possible with some territorial concessions(if plausible) or King Hussein just doesn't believe what Nasser is saying about his success...

  11. Cultural AHC and WI: No (modern) Christmas

    My understanding is that a large part of today's attitudes towards Christmas and rituals therof are largely inventions of the mid-19th century. So let's say Dickens doesn't write about Christmas for whatever reason and as a result of butterflies Christmas trees are never popularized outside of...

  12. AHC: prevent neo-classicism or at least academic classicism

    This is really two challenges in one. The challenges are focused on the visual arts but to some extent they can and/or should take in more of the period's aesthetic-visual arts are just a useful focus here. It may also require political changes since goverment sponsorship of the arts will come...

  13. WI: The Selujiks break-up less

    I'm thinking of finally getting off my ass and writing a mini-TL, and was thinking of what might happen if the Selujik sucessor states are larger and stronger, particularly the Sultanate of Rum. Would it be possible to have the Rum Sultans wind up with Syria, the Levant, and OTL Georgia and...

  14. WI: A bureaucratic class in the HRE?

    This seems like one of those things that might be tricky and require a few PoDs to work out, but which would have very interesting effects down the line. What if a system developed in the HRE by which the most promising young men throughout the empire were recruited into and trained for the...

  15. Plausiblity check: fanon lives longer and gets more notice in US?

    So in the interest of more intellectual history-based timelines, I'm interested in working out the plausiblity of Frantz Fanon living longer and becoming noteworthy in the US in the late 50s/early 60s. OTL he had leukemia and died in 1961, so obviously he can't live to 99 but some of his work in...

  16. Civil war books

    Reading some of the Civil War TLs on this site has revived my interest in that period. Since I'm more used to the Virginia-centric view, what are some good introductions to the western theater?
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