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I'll pull the quotes from that book after work. But Jefferson wasn't above acting hastily; he was frequently moved by his passions to all manner of unorthodox positions.

I came across this factoid while reading Empire of Liberty, Oxford's entry in its US History series covering the period of the early republic (1787-1815). Apparently this idea was being bandied about in Republican circles in the latter half of Adam's presidency. From what I read, it seems like...

This is an admittedly half-baked timeline idea that's been sitting on my hard drive for a little while. I don't think I'm ever going to do anything with it, so I figured I'd dump the sketch on this forum and see what you guys think. Please, pick away. *** 1912 US Presidential Election 284 EVs...

What if instead of sending an invasion force to reestablish the metropole's domination, Napoleon decides to commission Louverture and charge him with harassing the British. How well would Free Haiti do in a war with her neighbors? Might we see similar slave revolutions in Jamaica and elsewhere...

Keep it coming!

I like this idea. The problem I'm running into is that there doesn't seem to be any women for Napoleon to marry. To sketch it out, Henry Stuart is the Jacobite claimant during the French Revolution after Charles III's death in 1788. Henry, was a cardinal and (it is speculated) a homosexual; he...

Say the house votes in his favor. Why, I don't know; feel free to come up with your own POD. As an addendum, just how ahistorical is Gore Vidal's Burr?

Barkley and Stockton on the Cavs?!?! That's wild, I can't wait to see where you go with this.

Looking forward to this!

As the title says, what happens if Ogedei lives a long life (meaning, the horde does not withdraw to elect the new Khan)? How deep into Europe do they go? How much territory are the Mongols able to hold long term?

Sure, but it could be the first in a series of rising escalations leading to war by the end of the year.

You're certainly correct there. One thought I have is, what if a socialist movement seized power in the US sometime between 1900 and 1933? In that setting, a cultural-left like that of the 60s, animated by racial and gendered concerns, might have more far-reaching consequences (rather than being...

Well, I'd expect the stories of American Indian tribes from all over the continent would get a fair amount of time to start the course. The encounter with the colonists would follow as a sort of rising action, before the Revolution and the nineteenth century Indian wars. I don't envision history...

The easiest route I see is for the culture to go left quicker. In that case, a big focus of American history classes might be the struggle between settlers and native peoples, which would necessitate a more in-depth focus on the colonial period.

"Your daddy may go down in history as having started World War III." --LBJ to his daughter, June 29, 1966 "In the hours between June 29th and June 30th, Vietnam time, American planes began raining fire on fuel depots in Hanoi and Haiphong. [LBJ] risked... an errant bomb hitting some Russian...