Along those lines
I have been working on a TL that ends with something like what the OP suggests, America reunited in a way that will subdue prejudice and division.
First, hatred is based largely on fear. The fear of a repeat of Santo Domingo fueled racial hatred in the South. After the CW...
IOTL, Robinson was there on hospital duty. He was an invalid and not able to put up much of a fight though he made a good show considering his condition, though the struggle with Frederick after the pistol misfired may have slowed Payne down a bit. Though I would trade Lincoln for Seward, too...
I didn't go too deep with this but I have the impression that Morton was getting along well with the natives. Americans are still viewed as puritanical by the debauched Europeans. How would America have developed differently if there had been a significant pagan influence?
John Morton set up a good time colony, raised a maypole, consorted with the Indians at drunken orgies and had a generally good time until the Puritans showed up an pooped on his party. So WI Merrymount had survived and/or overshadowed puritanism? WI America was born a pagan country? What are the...
I am about 20% of the way through this. Not bad so far. Tsouras can tell a story/piece together a timeline, though his writing is not so great. There are a lot of spelling and grammar errors. An editor would have benefited him greatly. I get the feeling the the effort was rushed. Still, not a...
Lincoln
Perhaps a little out of left field but Lincoln was an excellent commander in chief. He and Chase made a foray on their own and captured a city in Virginia. He also went ashore from his ship on the Potomac and scouted enemy territory. Maybe ASB but to show Lincoln taking the field as a...
Actual text flows forth occasionally. I understand how writers spend years producing books. One year after I decided to write, I am at about thirty pages now. The research continues to include the books listed below with about ten to fifteen more on the list before I set myself to writing...
But then that was not a problem for Texas or Hawaii
Both were annexed by simple majorities. Just a joint resolution. Objections were made but we see the outcome. The first precedent was standing at the time of the Santo Domingo annexation debate.
The only way I can honestly see it working...
I have been through parts of this scenario myself with a few different twists. It is an obvious point in history that leads to some very interesting possibilities and butterflies. But really, I think it played out here. Nothing new is really going to come up that has not been discussed in depth...
Some parts of your thesis may have been discussed elsewhere, as most have been. See Lincoln Survives Assassinationand What if More Active and Effective Reconstruction,.
I am working on a book which I have described at https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=318660, Lincoln Survives Assassination. I am about to begin writing a series of scenes where the protagonist and his father's four household slaves journey north from Taylor County...
We worked through some of the issues around the establishment of a post-ACW black homeland in my posts below.
There was money appropriated for colonization. Lincoln was all for it even after the issuance of the emancipation proclamation. The idea, or threat, of black reservations is not so...