Recent content by Evan

I'm thinking of a steampunk alternate-history story which would, among other things, involve a United States that's gone Communist. What I'm not clear on is the backstory, except that I'm leaning toward a point of divergence during or shortly after the American Civil War (which still does...

There was a very fragile political balance between the three counties of Delaware. It definitely would've been disturbed during the war, but I'm not sure they'd want more voters.

Yeah, me too! I tried writing a "more successful John Brown" timeline myself, but I got bogged down trying to decide how I wanted the election of 1860 to go.

That said, the Baptists were a lower-class, more radical denomination circa 1800.

Yeah, I know. I joined the Board a little after that era, while robertp6165 was still writing. The quality of TL writing has gone up since then.

Just looked it up; thanks for the reference - Go South, Young Man: President Abraham Lincoln, CSA, by robertp6165. It looks pretty skeletal, like many timelines from that era, and not the most plausible.

A lot of them wouldn't; it was very split. That was true in the 1840's North, but I'm not sure that was the case in the 1780's. Then, a lot of people were ideologically against slavery, because they'd just gained independence on the back of mountains of rhetoric for liberty and against...

As @Rhymehouse says, the Bill of Rights, Eleventh Amendment, and Twenty-Seventh Amendment can pretty definitely pass without any problems beyond those the OTL Constitution had. The Twelfth Amendment would require a new view of the Vice-Presidency, but I think it could get through too. The...

Hurrah for a new thread, and the promise of a better Reconstruction! Technically not inaccurate! But yes, surely very, very far over one hundred.

One of the Republican campaign slogans in the OTL 1856 election was to tear down the "twin relics of barbarism: Slavery and Polygamy."

It's named after the town of Atchison, Kansas, so at one remove from the man. Hope that helps.

That would depend on future nationalism and alliances. IOTL, the German language in the US wasn't killed till WWI.

1775 IOTL, actually. But as you suggest, it became bigger and broader-scale over time. Though you're right, butterflies could've caused just about anything to happen.

There wasn't a great battle IOTL either. There was Lee's evacuation from the lines around Richmond, and then one fight around Appomattox. What we got IOTL was the momentous moment of Lee's surrender to Grant, then followed up by Johnson's surrender to Sherman. They were inherently...

Alternatively: ISOT Western Alaska, alone, to OTL. For perhaps the most interesting results, do it sometime during the OTL Cold War.