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  1. Border state slavery after a CSA victory

    In this timeline, the Confederacy triumphs at the Battle of Antietam in September of 1862, and then is recognised by the UK and France. For the purpose of this thread, it matters not how ASB this scenario is. For the sake of argument, just accept that it happens. So obviously Lincon cannot...

  2. Border state slavery

    I haven't seen this discussed before. This is definitely not a 'What if the South won?' TL, although this does assume a Confederate victory in 1862. And please, please, ASB Police, restrain yourselves. If Lincoln never gets to make the Emancipation Proclamation, because his side lost, I'm...

  3. The execution of Hirohito

    What if, for any reason you want, the Western Allies decided that they were not going to let the Japanese keep their emperor. Perhaps the depth of his involvement was exposed, maybe Downfall actually took place, the casualties were so horrendous that the victors were in such a pissed off state...

  4. The Edmund Fitzgerald doesn't sink

    Today is the 40th anniversary of this event, and we've all heard, countless times, Gordon Lightfoot's epic song, 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'. I don't think a TL about this has been done before. In truth, if the ship didn't go down, the butterflies probably wouldn't be too earth...

  5. How long could slavery last in the USA after a Confederate victory?

    Over and over again, you see threads where it is asked about how long could slavery continue in a victorious CSA. It's been done to death. I never remember seeing anything on the flip side of the question. Now, to give this some prospective, obviously there has to be a POD. The south...

  6. AH challenge: make the 1914 Christmas truce permanent.

    Since tonight makes 100 years, lets try this; WI enough soldiers on both sides realize that there is nothing that can be done to make either side have a decisive advantage, and that millions of them will die for no real purpose. So a small cease fire spreads all over the Western Front, and...

  7. Why is JFK assasination conspiracy so unpopular here?

    Seeing the 'Sealion as a sensitive subject' thread, made me think of another one; I have noticed that anyone who chimes in with the suggestion that Oswald didn't act alone gets threatened with being banned. I realize most here are very andamant that Oswald acted alone, but hey, what about the...

  8. Titanic sinks, but not on her maiden voyage.

    I don't think this has ever been done before. So suppose the maiden voyage is uneventful, and the Titanic becomes just another liner plying the North Atlantic? And for 2 years, all goes well, then in April 1914 has a fatal encounter with an iceberg, while making a westbound journey in the same...

  9. The CSA wins: what next in the USA?

    Besides the usual 'What if the South won?' threads, which pop up from time to time, usually at the hands of eager newbies, the most common storyline is about how long slavery would last in a victorious CSA. There is one making the rounds now. I don't want to discuss that aspect very much; it has...

  10. The trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

    This TL depends on Jack Ruby either not existing at all, or just being a regular guy and not the pathetic loser he seems to have been in OTL, or maybe he just chickens out at the last minute. Either way, we don't have that famous photo where Oswald looks like he just got punched in the stomach...

  11. CSA doesn't fire on Ft. Sumter

    Suppose Jeff Davis and his cabinet decide that they will be in a stronger position diplomatically if they don't fire the first shot, and give the order that, under no circumstances are confederate forces are to shoot except in self defense? So that no matter how aggrevating the situation...

  12. Alternatives to Ascension?

    In April of 1982, as the fleet steamed south, my dad and I were discussing the coming fight. We were both fairly suer that it was going to come to blows, and we knew that the British would need an FBO to launch operations against the Falklands, but couldn't think of where. [Neither of us guessed...

  13. Border state slavery after a CSA victory

    So in this scenario, the South wins. For the sake of arguement, let's say that most of the major 1862 battles are more bloody than they were in OTL. The Peninsular Campaign was a horrible meatgrinder. Union casualties were ghastly. Then, when Lee invades Maryland, Antietam becomes a northern...

  14. How well could Dad's Army have done?

    This is going to take a real leap of faith. Take a deep breath. Inhale. Focus your mind to think outside the box. It happens. [You know what I am talking about] Never mind how, perhaps Scotty beams them over. Forget about the air, and especially forget about the sea. They cometh. Think a seven...

  15. The 7th armed with the Henry/Spencer/Winchester at Little Bighorn

    How much different would the outcome have been if Custer's men had been armed with decent rifles instead of the crappy single shot Springfields that they had? True, they were breechloaders, but the black powder tended to collect in the barrels during a battle, causing problems if enogh shots...

  16. AH challenge: a wider Falklands war

    Since today is the 30th anniversary, why not a Falklands scenario. In OTL, hostilities spread beyond the Falklands themselves, into South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, which were Falklands dependancies [although there were no shots fired in the South Sandwich group]. How can we create...

  17. Jordan stays out of Six Day War

    In OTL, before the war began, Israeli PM Levi Eshkol spoke to King Hussein on the phone, urging him to keep out of hostilities, should it come to that. Of course, Nasser of Egypt was twisting his arm hard the other way. Then, on the morning of June 5, 1967, Jordanian radar picked up a large...

  18. WI Olympic but no Coronet?

    The reason for this is that the development of the bomb is six months behind where it was on our TL, for whatever reason. The first detonation takes place at the Trinity test site, on Jan. 16th, 1946. So, in the late summer of 1945, plans for Operation Downfall continue as scheduled. [And for...

  19. FDR too sick to go to Yalta

    The thread about FDR living longer made me think of this. Back in my youth, I was a real hater of communism, and I used to debate my dad about what might have happened had it been Truman at Yalta instead of the POTUS. So let us say that in the winter of '45, FDR comes down with a bad bout of...

  20. Paulus disobeys Hitler

    I just finished reading 'War of the rats' by David Robbins; a partly ficticious account of the sniper duel in the ruins of Stalingrad, between Sgt. Vasily Zaitsev, and a crack German sniper, who may not have actually existed, according to Wikipedia. But it reminded me of a favourite AH idea I...
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