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What do you mean by this? Is this hinting at Hamilton's aggressive proposals to the Adams Administration during the Quasi-War? That was in 1798 if I am remembering correctly, after Hamilton had been Secretary of Treasury for Washington. In the ATL, the powerful chief executive role for the...

What if Irvine Lenroot was Warren G. Harding's Vice President instead of Calvin Coolidge, and became President after Harding's death in 1923? Lenroot, in contrast to the conservative Coolidge, had a reputation as a Progressive within the Republican Party. How could or would he have governed...

What if Frank Lowden was the Republican nominee in 1928? He would be the presumptive victor of that election over Al Smith. Would the win or lose the electoral votes of any states different than Hoover did in the election? How are his Cabinet selections? How does he try to deal the stock...

Who else could have had the Republican nomination for the Presidency in 1928 besides Herbert Hoover or Calvin Coolidge?

Who else could have been selected as Warren G. Harding's VP, aside from Calvin Coolidge?

Alternate History Challenge: Get any of Britain, France, Germany, or Italy involved in a shooting war in Europe during the 1920s that is not a civil war or colonial war, and is fought against the central government forces of another state. The PoD must be after the signature of the Versailles...

AHC: A Spanish-American war between the Treaty of Paris, 1783, and the French revolutionaries declaration of war on Spain in 1792.

What if the 2008 financial crisis happens in late 2005 and the Great Recession starts then? What if the economic negative trends, the drop in real estate values, sub-prime mortgage crisis and so forth that culminated in the fall 2008 financial crisis had come together to cause a late 2005...

What if the Sassanians moved their capital after their wars with Heraclius from Ctesiphon in Mesopotamia to someplace in the Zagros mountains or behind them? Someplace like the old location of Persepolis or nearby Estakhr? Or Isfahan/Spahan? Or Tehran? Tabriz? Could this have enabled the...

A different Iraq If there was no 21st century invasion of Iraq by the USA or Iran, but the Saddam Hussein regime fell, parties representing the Shia Arab majority came out on top of the government, and the government and populace faced an intractable Sunni terrorist insurgency, would the global...

What a dick that author is contemplating restricting the franchise to favored or disfavored demographics on the basis of their affinity to his ideology, which he calls libertarianism. He's like a reverse-image marxist-leninist. And he's misnaming or reducing the idea of libertarianism to a very...

So y’all think Cruz and Rubio would have been no-hopers in 2016? A question for you about a hypothetical Kasich or Romney Presidency. - I have no doubt they could get a partial majority, indeed would be under partisan pressure to pass a corporate and income tax cut early like Trump did. But...

Ron Paul is such a "boy's own" choice of “very online” people. He'd tank in the female vote, they'd rightly not feel secure with him and wouldn't see libertarianism as paradise.

Italy could theoretically get every scrap of land it got in OTL for absolutely no war effort. Denmark got north Schleswig based of zero war effort, some ethnic claims, and a throat-clearing noise.

Throw in enough scandalous personal behavior by royal family members, sexually or financially or sacrilegiously, and you've easily made the monarchy dispensable. Maybe, but it would still meet your prompt. Or it could just lead to a later, harder Allied & Associated powers victory. Or via...

You gotta admit Buba, he's got you cold with this logic.

Would *love* to see this one developed. As for "Europeans having a more accurate estimate of the Earth's diameter." Most of those who contemplated the question, probably did have more accurate estimates than Columbus. The PoD is just no on ever patronizing a voyage direct to the alleged...

There is a very good reason you have not heard about that acronym before. I just made it up last night! :sneaky: I wanted to come up with a derogatpory-sounding nickname for something I see repeatedly that I've found highly annoying :mad: But, as people have pointed out, it's not worth...

DBWIB (pronounced ‘dbweeb’) – definition – A DBWI-blind poster, the person on the thread who just doesn’t get it, and just doesn’t play along ands ruins the flow of the discussion by: a) denying the events of the OP are real or plausible, because they don’t understand the OP is being posted...

AHC is simply an abbreviation for "Alternate History Challenge"- You explain the desired result/outcome, rather than provide the detailed point of departure, and invite fellow discussants to suggest plausible ways to alter history beforehand to achieve that outcome. ISOT is "island in the sea...