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  1. Planning Thread for a 1920's US Political Thread

    Yes, another one of these. I've had the urge to do an American political TL for a long time. My ultimate dream is one that starts right at the beginning, in the 1780's, but that's a long way and a lot of research off. Rather, I'd like to do one that captures the essence of what I would try to...

  2. AH Challenge: Greeks to the left, Persians to the right, Arabs in the middle

    Basically, your challenge is to create a situation in late-antiquity/the early middle-ages in which there are the following polities: 1. A Byzantine Empire occupying much the same position it did IOTL after the Arab conquests: Anatolia west of the Taurus mountains and fluctuating parts of the...

  3. America without the common law?

    One of the threads amongst more radical politicos in early post-Revolutionary America was that the Common law itself was in some ways unjust. Not the system itself (judges presiding over cases and making decisions which are, to some extent, binding on future judges, and which have the same...

  4. How could we get another major river in North Africa?

    I'm interested in the idea of creating a 'China' in the West and, since there are only two major civilizations in the West at the time China was just waking up, Egypt and Mesopotamia, I have to use one of them. Since Mesopotamia isn't really ideally positioned for unity, we're left with Egypt...

  5. How can the 18th century status quo be preserved?

    That is, how can a situation where wars are fought according to certain rules by relatively small, exclusively professional armies be preserved against the ideas of levee en masse and national struggle that emerged out of the French Revolution? And, so the discussion doesn't get too de-railed...

  6. The Miracle of the House of Braunau: WI FDR dies early?

    What if FDR dies in late 1944, rather than in 1945? Hitler was said to have dreamed about the possibility of FDR dieing during the Battle of Berlin, precipitating a crisis amongst the Allies as Stalin and Churchill fell out. Of course, FDR actually did die during the Battle of Berlin and it...

  7. AH Challenge: The 26 Colonies

    Your challenge is to get all 26 British American colonies to participate in a successful American Revolution. While it doesn't need to happen at the same date as IOTL, it should happen around the same time period.

  8. WI: Oliver Ellsworth doesn't get sick in 1800?

    What if the second Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court doesn't get sick during his journey over the Atlantic in late 1800? The main reason he stepped down from his position of Chief Justice was this sickness, so he'll stay on. As a consequence, John Adams won't be able to appoint John Marshall...

  9. ATTN: People with a depth of knowledge on the Crusading era

    I've spent maybe the last year or so researching the reign of John II Comnenus of Byzantium, the general culture and economy of Byzantium during the Comnenian Restoration, and every little detail I can get to try and be correct for the timeline I'm writing. I even had access to a copy of this...

  10. WI: A Native state in the Ohio Country?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Eyes In 1778 White Eyes helped negotiate a treaty of alliance between the Delaware Tribe and the young United States. Stipulated in the treaty was that the Delaware should organize a state and send representation to the Continental Congress. IOTL, White Eyes...

  11. ...As the Earth Shook, Poseidon Roared (A Byzantine TL)

    I've been meaning to get this going for a long while now. I finally managed to track down a copy of the Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus, so now is as good a time as any. This first thread will be as much a rough draft as anything else, but I hope to get the basic idea out there so I can start...

  12. A Task Most Worthy - Avoiding the First World War, Planning Thread

    I believe the best way to start any discussion is with an agreement, and I hope everyone here with me that the first half or so of the short 20th century (1914-1991) was a series of movements from one un-mitigated disaster to the next. From the break-down of the old European order into general...

  13. An ATL of OTL, real events with non-real undercurrents

    I'm considering, and have done some basic brainstorming and researching on, starting a strange sort of TL. Depending on which path I decide to follow, it would cover either the era of the US Civil War onward through, perhaps, the middle 1960's, or instead the events immediately preceding the...

  14. Is there something to this?

    220 - Abdication of the last Han Emperor, China is thrown into the chaotic Three Kingdoms, not ending for 60 years. 235 - Emperor Severus is murdered by disaffected soldiers, which leads directly to the Crisis of the Third Century, a fifty year period of plague, invasion, and Civil War 280 -...

  15. Good (R) candidate for 2000 BESIDES Bush?

    The Republicans had a lot going for them in 2000, what with the whole weakening economy and the earlier Republican Revolution of Gingrich. That they chose Bush to represent this growing energy is sometimes mystifying to me, so I thought I'd ponder the alternate possibilities of this situation...

  16. How likely is this?

    I've run across a theory in a dusty old book I got from a professor last semester that Europe pulled ahead of the near East not because of anything inherent to Europe, but instead because of the sheer devastation wrought by invaders in the late Middle Ages. Whereas Europe was able to recover...

  17. So what exactly is it about Byzantium?

    I'm currently in the research stage of a future timeline, and I was wondering: What exactly is it about the remnant Eastern Roman Empire that draws so much interest from so many people? And, more importantly to me, what is it that's so over-done about the whole thing that people groan and roll...

  18. WI Marcus Octavius refuses to veto Tiberius Gracchus' land and law reforms?

    If the lex Sempronia agraria passes the Concilium Plebis while Gracchus is still a constitutional tribune, can the Senate still get away with killing him? Will the laws be enforceable? What effect will a continued distribution of land to ex-soldiers by the government and not by individual...

  19. Julian II doesn't die at Maranga?

    At the tender age of 32 (Hm, what's the significance of that, I wonder?) Emperor Julian II (The Philosopher or The Apostate) was struck in the side with a thrown spear while fighting, unarmored, in a rearguard action after his army had abandoned the siege of Ctesiphon. The contemporary account...

  20. WI British regulars annihilated at Lexington?

    During the later period of the running battle around Lexington and Concord at the dawn of the American Revolution the British regulars under Lt Colonel Smith and Lord Percy who had respectively recently withdrawn from Concord and come to reinforce Smith were a pretty ragged bunch. Subjected to...
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