The Ann Arbor Land Company offered the land to the University only after they failed to get the state capital...
The original school that preceded the university was located downtown... but I think it'd struggle to retain that campus alone. Belle Isle is close by and empty...
I think the...
I think they mean Catherine de' Medici (1593-1629), daughter of Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Some of the younger daughters of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy may also be considered (Maria Apollonia, etc.) - as I recall the negotiations were ongoing at his death and the Medici had...
He's probably marrying a Catholic if Elizabeth has already been promised to Frederick of the Palatine. A Savoyard princess, perhaps.
He was already forming a counter-court to his father, composed of younger, more militant and Protestant men than his father's favorites.
It's an open question as...
Al Gore - Nashville, maybe at Vandy.
John Kerry - Chestnut Hill, MA? (JD, Boston College)
John McCain - Phoenix.
Mitt Romney - If he's elected in 2012 his only real ties to Salt Lake City are his faith and organizing the 2002 Olympics. Not sure if this would be enough to avoid another Boston...
It's interesting that Jamestown was being abandoned when those marooned on Bermuda finally made it to the James River. It's interesting that as the English Civil War raged there was relatively low morale in New England and people were going back home to fight or to the Caribbean to pirate the...
Pre-1650 POD:
New Netherland, New England, Virginia-dominated America, French Canada.
There are problems with French colonization but they are not intractable, arguably.
With more powers in play it would be possible that a few native states can play them off of each other and maintain their...
I imagine this is an OTL map, because I highly doubt the Great Dismal Swamp canal would be completed across a border (not that it was much used regardless...).
I am almost salivating at the effect the integration of the St. Lawrence will have on Montreal, Canada, and Detroit in the coming decades.
Certainly Southern Gothic's critique of modernity would look differently without the post-Reconstruction malaise - though there would still be racial and class contours to explore as artfully as Faulkner or O'Connor did IOTL.
What makes you say that? How is the plantation economy *not*...
First: Your view of American soccer is rather outdated, but this is an alternate history forum not a future history challenge, so it's somewhat immaterial. Briefly: MLS has >$1b in revenue these days (7th highest national soccer league world-wide), their minimum salary is $67k (Walmart greeters...
I mean every Anglo settler colony is an outlier in this respect. Something something psychologically distancing oneself from the motherland (and industrializing just as early or being far enough away that they solidifed their own rules before England could spread it across the world). Just like...
The specific ARW of our OTL failing doesn't mean there won't be others. It was really only because of their failure to retain America that Britain learned to have a lighter hand with her colonies. But conceding that they manage to do so (likely by playing regions against one another...)...
I'm skeptical of Superior being it's own state - why would Michigan give up the eastern half of the peninsula they had from 1805? I suppose it could be established as a state during the mining booms, though. (Did Michigan still lose the Toledo strip?)
I'm also curious as to why there's no Arkansas.
That might be a bit harsh. Certainly it would be a major facet. On the other hand, I have no doubt Charles serves for many years as Henry's right hand man and a principal voice for the Crown in Lords. Whether this is for good or ill in the three kingdoms is up to the timeline author. While many...
Booms can't go on forever. NASCAR alienated its core market in favor of the richer, but more fickle, one and lost a lot of its iconic race tracks in the process. Market conditions change - I would point out that it's boom also correlates pretty closely with peak American nostalgia in the...
Having been enmeshed in the literature around this time period ahead of a potential timeline of my own, a few thoughts:
It was a good joke, a great joke even, but I think it was just that - a boyhood joke by Henry towards a brother he almost never saw. By the time they were both young adults...