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  1. Alternate slang/phrases

    I figured it would be fun to come up with some alternate slang terms and phrases, along with a description of how they came to be and using it in a sentence. I'll try to keep adding to this over the next while, feel free to add your own. The focus is on post-1900 stuff but if some pre-1900...

  2. Plausibility and likely effects of a European war over Poland during the US Civil War?

    So, I was reminded recently of the Russians hinting at intervening on the side of the Union during the US Civil War. From what I read, the Russians were stringing the US along so they could keep a large chunk of their fleet in NYC and Baltimore, thus keeping it in warm-water ports in case a war...

  3. Alternate-historical obsolete signifiers

    So in OTL, there are quite a few symbols we use that made perfect sense back when we started using them, and now don't really make sense but survive on tradition. Like the "save" symbol on a computer being a floppy disk, or a old-style handset phone being the symbol for a phone call, or the...

  4. Menorca as a Russian possession in the 18th century?

    So I have read before* that the British considered transferring Menorca (which they took in the War of the Spanish Succession) to the Russians. If this happened, would Russia be able to hold onto it and use it as a naval base in the long run? Or was it too far away without access through the...

  5. Effects of an unconquered Norway on WWII?

    It seems to me that if the Allies had had a bit more skill or luck, the German invasion of Norway could have easily failed, or at the least failed to take Narvik. If this had happened, how would it affect the course of the war? I know that it would have disrupted Swedish iron shipments to...

  6. Effects on local and world politics of no Korean War

    So let's say that the US makes it clear that South Korea as well as Japan is under its "Nuclear Umbrella" and because of this (or just a simple change of opinion) Stalin refuses to give Kim il Sung the go-ahead to try to unify the Koreas. As such, there is no Korean War, at least not as in OTL...

  7. Stirling's "Domination" Draka trilogy available on Kindle

    So because it's one of the often-discussed series in AH (despite its many silly elements and implausibility), I've been trying to find the Draka series at libraries and bookstores for quite some time. And last night, I found out the whole trilogy is for sale as an e-book for $9.99! Figured I...

  8. Which president do you save?

    Just as some explanation: - If you save Harrison, I leave it up to your judgment whether he gets reelected in 1844. - If you save Lincoln, he steps down in 1868, keeping to the two-term tradition. - If you save Garfield, I again leave it up to your judgment whether he gets reelected in...

  9. AHC: No Chinese Exclusion Act

    Is it possible, with a post-1865 POD, for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 not to be passed in the US? If so, how much would this change US demographics and culture? Would states like California end up with a plurality of Chinese (or East Asian in general) residents? How would a larger...

  10. AH.Com North American Baseball Championship 2012

    So, with the success of the Euro Cup, I figured I'd try something for baseball. There's really no real-world event this is based on (This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_World_Cup and this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Baseball_Classic come the closest), but since the All-Star Game...

  11. An Ottoman Suez Canal?

    Let's say that in the early-to-mid 1500s, the Ottoman sultan becomes greatly concerned with the Portugese domination of trade with India and the East in general. Due to a different configuration of influence in court, he is able to act against the entrenched interests of land-based traders and...

  12. AHC - Soccer as the main U.S. sport

    With a POD after 1900, is it possible for soccer to outdo baseball, American football and basketball and become the dominant sport in the US as it is in much of the rest of the world? Before WWII, the US had a fairly good soccer program - taking third place in the 1930 world Cup - and we even...

  13. Non-Parallellism in TL-191

    Since so much of the WWII-era books of TL-191 is extreme parallellism with the real WWII, I thought it would be interesting to have a thread about the bits of the series that avoid this parallellism. Here's what I've got: 1. There's no analog to Poland and the Baltic States in WWII, unless...

  14. Early invention of photography?

    It seems to me that all the prerequisites for the invention of photography were there as early as the 1600s. Could an early Enlightenment-era scholar have developed the art of photography in this period, and could the technology have become widespread by 1700? If so, how would that have...

  15. America: A Symphony in Four Movements

    As a brief introduction: This timeline begins in 1933, with the successful assassination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Giuseppe Zanigara. It's an exploration of possible trends in regional American politics and society given the breakdown of central authority during the Great Depression, and...
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