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  1. Women Guaranteed a Voice in the Senate: A Series of Lists

    "When the women of the country come in and sit with you, though there may be but very few in the next few years, I pledge you that you will get ability, you will get integrity of purpose, you will get exalted patriotism, and you will get unstinted usefulness." - Rebecca Latimer Fenton, 1922 So...

  2. Green Revolution on the Golden Gate

    Total Recall: Schwarzenegger Wins Gubernatorial Election Over Bustamante and McClintock October 8, 2003 SACRAMENTO, CA - The votes have been counted, and Gray Davis will be out of the governor’s mansion by the end of the year. In his place will be actor turned politician Arnold Schwarzenegger...

  3. AHC/WI: More widespread Deseret and Cherokee Script

    I've had the thought of creating a map of a divided North America, where the Deseret and Cherokee scripts are not only state languages but a lot more widespread and used in multiple countries. I'm thinking the Deseret script would be used primarily in the OTL Southwest interior and maybe...

  4. WI No "Segregation Now, Segregation Forever"

    I was listening to this NPR article on George Wallace and found an interesting POD. What if Wallace had taken the editor's advice and not included the line. I can see a double-edged sword to this as a POD. Wallace's appeal outside of the South might have been improved by not having the...

  5. Bill Bradley Runs in 1992

    I was reading up on Bill Bradley's 2000 campaign and found out that he was considering running for president in 1992. He ended up not because he felt it wasn't the right time, but I wonder how much of a chance at the nomination he would have had if he ran then. Apparently Clinton was also...

  6. AH Vignette: "You Have a Choice"

    Decided to try my hand at a vignette based on a little idea I've been mulling for a while. ----- Finally, the first results were about to come in for the start of the long count to 338. The campaign had seemed interminable, but at last the hard work was finally over. Well, for a few days...

  7. WI Hearst wins 1905 NYC Mayoral Election

    William Randolph Hearst ran on the Municipal Ownership League against the Tammany-dominated Democrats for the NYC mayor's election in 1905. He lost by a recorded 3,000 vote margin. So what if Hearst wins and becomes mayor of New York? Does this propel him to another run for the presidency...

  8. Roosevelt/Willkie '44

    A while ago I found this article in the New Yorker about a potential FDR/Willkie cross-party ticket in 1944. Even though it's unlikely, how would this change American politics if this happened? Additionally, assuming Willkie survives his OTL fatal heart attack and lives for at least another...

  9. WI Earlier Global Spread of Coffee

    One of the peculiarities of commodity spread is that coffee, while it was discovered in Ethiopia possibly as early as the 800s, it only spread to Yemen and Mecca in the 1400s, and only arrived in Indonesia when the Dutch brought it there. So say coffee spreads throughout the Islamic world...

  10. The World of Thursday Next

    I've just finished the first two Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde, and in addition to the premise of being able to enter literature, the world of the novels is also a fun if very implausible alternate history. -The Crimean War has been going off and on for over a century, apparently with...

  11. WI South Africa Hosts 2006 World Cup

    I did not realize how close the vote was between Germany and South Africa in the 2006 World Cup host bidding, with Germany winning the bid 12 to 11. What if South Africa ended up winning instead of Germany? Would we still see an all European semifinal? How does this change the future World...

  12. How long can Vermont stay Republican?

    Vermont holds the record for the longest continuous streak in presidential elections, going Republican from 1856 until it voted for LBJ in 1964, and elected a Republican as governor from 1854 to 1962. How long could these streaks to continue? Is it possible for Vermont to vote Republican up to...

  13. John R. Brinkley Elected Governor of Kansas

    For those who don't know who John R. Brinkley is, he was a quack doctor in the 1920s and radio pioneer. After the Kansas Medical Board stripped his license to practice, he was determined to run for governor which would led him appoint members of the medical board. In 1930, he campaigned for...

  14. WI Thomas Huxley Discovers Heredity

    What if Huxley performed Mendel's pea plant crossbreeding or similar experiments and disproved blending inheritance? Since the prevailing idea of blending inheritance was one of the major blocks to early acceptance of evolution and natural selection (and something Darwin struggled with...

  15. AHC: Keep Charleston, SC one of the largest cities in the US

    Up until 1850, Charleston, South Carolina was one of the 10 largest cities in the United States by population. Afterward, it fell off the list and is now 205th with only 127,000 people. How can you keep Charleston one of the 10 largest cities up to the present.

  16. Venezuela Qualifies for a World Cup?

    Venezuela is the only CONMEBOL country that has never qualified for a World Cup. Aside from participating in 1930, what's the most likely way to get Venezuela to qualify at least once?

  17. McClellan Elected in 1864, but the Union Still Wins

    McClellan winning the 1864 election is used as a part of a lot of CSA wins timelines, but there hasn't been much done with the electoral victory as a POD in itself. So what if McClellan wins the 1864 election? While it is out there in possibility, McClellan could win if you flip the close...

  18. 1936 Maximum Democrats

    I'm continuing my look at how badly the Republicans could have fallen in the earl 1930s. I already went through the Senate and House. In OTL, the balance of the Senate at the beginning of the 75th Congress was 75 Democrats, 16 Republicans, 2 Farmer-Labor, and 1 Progressive. However, with a...

  19. 1940: Garner Runs on a Third Party

    After making this post, I am actually curious as to how a situation where John Nance Garner breaks with Roosevelt after the Democratic Convention would play out. There was already heavy divisions between GArner and FDR over the court packing scandal. There do need to be some revisions though...

  20. WI Brazil Doesn't Qualify for the 1994 World Cup

    The 1994 World Cup was already strange with neither France or England qualifying, and Bulgaria beating France in the final match to qualify. But it could have been even stranger. Going into the final CONMEBOL matchday, group 2 was like this: Bolivia 10 Uruguay 10 Brazil 9 Ecuador 4...
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