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An interesting fact I learned recently is that Jean Victor Marie Moreau, the victor of the Battle of Hohenlinden and republican rival of Napoleon, was forced into exile in the United States in 1805. He initially refused all offers of a commission into the U.S. Army and enjoyed a retirement of...

While doing some reading on early Islam, I found out Muhammad had actually sent out letters to the various polities that surrounded Arabia (and some within) seeking to convert them to Islam. Of particular interest to me was the letters sent to Emperor Heraclius of the Eastern Roman Empire, and...

1169 A.D. - Maria of Antioch, wife of Emperor Manuel I of the Roman Empire, gives birth to a stillborn son (POD). Amidst this tragic event, the Emperor's determination is settled upon ensuring the succession for his adopted heir, Bela Arpad, scion of the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Hungary...

While listening to an episode of the History of Byzantium podcast the other day, I was intrigued by a rather interesting idea put forth by the host: We don't know for sure what the original intent of John II's final campaign was. Ostensibly, the Emperor was seeking to finally settle the issue of...

Professor John P. Kaminski is one of the leading Constitutional Scholars in the United States, having founded the Center for the Study of the American Constitution in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as co-edited thirty-five volumes of The Documentary...

So, as the title says, the Drakaverse United States and Third Reich from their ATL's December 1st, 1941 is ISOTed in place of our own. As the map shows, both are behemoths, with the resources and industry to match it. The United States spans all of continental North America, as well as Cuba, the...

So we've had a spate of threads that overall revolve around political policy recently, which has spurred me to want to create a general catch all thread with this topic in mind; it'd be a lot easier than one thread per every policy paper, idea, or such lol. Ideally, I would like to see this...

These 2012 era talking points ring increasingly hollow in the wake of a decade of riots and cities burning.

So, now that we are about eight months in, I can say the Biden Administration has at least done three things right: 1. Getting us the fuck out of Afghanistan; we should've been there, I'm glad we're out and I don't see any of the criticisms as being valid in general terms. 2. Extending the...

So, 1983 had a LOT of close calls with Nuclear Armageddon just barely being avoided according to many. However, let's say the balloon did go up, so to speak, and the nukes were lobbed back and forth in the Fall of that year. Once the dust settles, what comes after? Most research suggests Nuclear...

Better question is why a new mother, and a single mother at that, was allowed to be a cop at all?

Napoleon was actually pretty close to victory in the Hundred Days, with the decisive point probably being the "misfire" at Ligny. After having pinned the Prussians frontally, Napoleon had set the seeds of a devastating flanking attack upon the Blucher's exposed right flank with the I Corps of...

Pick any five powers, and select a date in history or timeline to be ISOTed to.

The Bashmurian Revolts were a serious of uprisings by the native Coptic Christians of Egypt against the ruling Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates from the 700s until 832. After having initially welcomed the Arabs as liberators, due to Imperial Byzantine prosecution of their Miaphysite faith, by the...

Yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, and befitting remembrance of that horrific event, I thought it worthwhile to create a thread discussing one of the big "what ifs" from that campaign. Arguably, the failure to attach Japan to the coming campaign against the USSR...

In September of 1948, Spanish Anarchist exiles-including former members of the French Resistance-attempted to assassinate the Spanish Caudillo by bombing his fishing boat via air. Obviously, this attempt failed and Franco would go on to live until 1975, but what if it hadn't? What if Franco had...

Vice President George Dallas, Secretary of the Treasury Robert Walker, and Secretary of State James Buchanan were all in favor of All Mexico. More importantly, perhaps, is that a large and growing faction in the Senate, increasingly dominant in the Northern states and having split the South, was...

What some towns or locations that could've developed into cities but failed to, for whatever reason? How about cities that did develop, but could've have been even greater, be it in wealth, importance, size, etc? How would such effect history?

Basically, achieve the reverse of what happened OTL (or maintain the Middle Ages dynamic, if you prefer lol). Historically, the Turks ultimately broke Byzantine rule in Anatolia and gradually converted the region, ultimately birthing the the Ottoman Empire while in Iberia the petty Christian...

In early 1918, the German Empire would launch its last series of offensives on the Western Front, although all are collectively referred to in the singular under the umbrella term of the "Spring Offensive". The German effort was the beneficiary of the collapse of the Russians, allowing the...