I think we could easily become involved with mexico on several occasions. There is a potential following the Civil war, and concurrently with WWI would have interesting effects in Europe. The US fighting a second, messy front would probably prevent us from getting involved in Russia's Civil war...
This post was inspired by my recent reading. In With Santa Anna in Texas, the Mexican officer laments that they had not acted wisely in their invasion plan, and the inevitable future invasion would be far bloodier. In Midnight War, the Czech Legion visits a fort that had been built in...
I read once that, had the Enola Gay crash landed, there was a chance that the atomic payload could detonate in the explosion. This is not true of Fat Man or subsequently developed nuclear warheads. Unfortunately I cannot track down where I read this information, but for the sake of ALT history...
Reading a book on the history of Alaska as a Russian colony, and its occurred to me how truly fortunate the US has been, having huge swaths of land sold to them by rival empires for dirt cheap. I get that each case was a unique product of circumstances, but it is still amazing, considering the...
Louisville, KY- Handwave the two major riots and the city could top 1 million. The first, the anti immigrant riot Bloody Monday in 1855, caused a massive exodus from the young city, and tarnished its reputation to immigrants for years after. A lot of the Irish and German that would've ended up...
The Martin castle sits between Versailles and Lexington, Kentucky, amid a bunch of horsefarms. I've driven past it hundreds of times and its still kind of jarring.
Well, I hate to be that dude, but ive actually had a similar topic on my mind for the last few days from this article. I don't think Fallout could be developed by another country, without said country being in America's place in the world. I've wondered how uniquely American the...
Japan at War: An oral history (Cook). Deals with the Japanese experience during what we call World War 2. It cuts across a huge swath of society, and deals a lot with the impact of the war, rather than focusing on just the soldiers perspective. I can't recall reading something else that has...
Assuming it did happen, it would be very interesting to see what happens if little pieces or chunks of states are ceded to the the victorious side. I have to imagine that Virginians would be very.. very angry about territorial changes, especially losing a piece of their land to a much smaller...
Thread inspired by this line from the article on the New Virginia Colony:
I hear on this forum, from time to time, interesting snippets of what various rulers and tyrants planned on doing with a territory once it was conquered. Years ago, i read that Alexander the Great planned on swapping...
I don't know the exact details, but i know that the division between KY and VA was in part to keep people from having to trek across the mountains to do any business in the capital. Settlers tended to come in from Maysville in the northeast or the Cumberland Gap in the southeast precisely...
Hey now, that reading counteracts a lifetime of propaganda. You're right, though (as much as any of us can be). In OTL, the Confederates viewed themselves as the successors to the revolution. And honestly, they probably had a more accurate reading to the Revolution than we do. They were closer...
"Wait" if you want to see that change in real life. This may be a bad reading of history, but i have gotten the impression that the presidency has grown more powerful throughout US history. The most memorable presidents are the ones who enlarged the office. Lincoln took the presidency to its...