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  1. DanMcCollum

    AHC: Larger American Navy Pre-Civil War

    Background: Although support for a stronger American Navy existed during the early Republic, it was largely held amongst the Federalist - a fact which makes sense as they were supported by the business and trade interests of the NE who would have seen a strong navy as 1) being able to protect...
  2. DanMcCollum

    WI: No Phoenix Park Murders

    On May 6, 1882 the newly appointed Chief Secretary of Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish, as well as Permenant Under Secretary Thomas Henry Burke were stabbed to death in broad daylight in Phoenix Park of Dublin, by members of Irish Invincibles. The murders occurred during the height of the...
  3. DanMcCollum

    WI: Larger Free Black Population in Pre-Revolutionary Texas

    Although small, on the eve of the Texas Revolution, the would-be Republic's Free Black population was still very noticable. Although many were descendents of early colonists that had settled the area during the Spanish period, the community had grown during the early Mexican era with the...
  4. DanMcCollum

    WI: Second Party System Without Andrew Jackson

    So, this is a question that I've been mulling over lately. Basically, the Second Party System in the United States was birthed from the breakdown of the Era of Good Feelings and the election of Andrew Jackson in 1928. The era was marked by Jackson's Democratic Party becoming the dominant...
  5. DanMcCollum

    WI: The Panjdeh Incident Gets Hot or; The Russo-British War of 1885

    Something stumbling out of my usual comfort zones here, but in doing my research lately I've come upon a lot of new stories relating to the growing tensions between Russia and Britain during March and April of 1885 following the Russian annexation of Panjdeh in Afghanistan. The incident...
  6. DanMcCollum

    AHC: Rimsko Carstvo (Or a South-Slavic Eastern Roman Empire)

    The Byzantines and their South Slavic neighbors have had a long and complicated history from the 6th century through the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Sometimes friends and allies with a shared faith, other times bitter rivals and enemies, with different Slavic principalities making war and...
  7. DanMcCollum

    AHC: Ben Butler Gets the 1884 Democratic Nomination

    While researching my dissertation, it has been my pleasure to read through a number of Irish Catholic newspapers from the latter 19th and early 20th century (and I do mean pleasure: I find that late 19th century journalistic prose is so much better than what we have today - the amount of snark...
  8. DanMcCollum

    AHC: Balt-Wank

    This is something that I've been thinking about for some time, but don't know the relativent history or literature enough to really speak on the subject. So, as usual in those cases, I thought I'd throw it open to the hive mind. Hopefully this goes better than it usually does ;) Anyway, the...
  9. DanMcCollum

    AH Query: Post-Messiac Judiasm

    I've been mulling an idea for some time, but sadly I'm out of my depth on the subject. I thought I'd throw it open to the great hivemind that is this board, and see if some experts might be able to give me a hand. Scenerio: Judaism doesn't better on the Steppes. Due to the Khazars doing...
  10. DanMcCollum

    Linguistic AHC: Norse Portugal Settlements

    A idea of a Norse settlement in Iberia is one which has appeared on these boards several times before and may *cough* have inspired a recent campaign of mine on CK3 :) But it got me thinking of what impact that Norse settlements would have on the cultural and linguistic landscape of the...
  11. DanMcCollum

    AHC: American Rules Football (Soccer)

    Spurred on by a conversation in another thread: There are, of course, several different games which evolved from what you might call Proto-Football in the English speaking world. Of these, you might say that there are two broad categories (and yes, I know, this is grandly over simplifying...
  12. DanMcCollum

    Thought Seed - The Conkling Court: Chief Justice Roscoe Conkling

    In May of 1873, the Chief Justicship of the Supreme Court became vacant with the death of Salmon P. Chase. President Grant, looking for an ally, initially pegged New York Senator Roscoe Conkling for the position - Conkling had managed to win Grant's respect for his aggressive defense of the...
  13. DanMcCollum

    DBWI: What if Manifest Destiny Was Successful

    In 1839, American journalist John L. O'Sullivan coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny" to describe a notion that the United States had a divine mission to uplift manking. Although his term was not used initially in a territorial manner - and O'Sullivan would not use it was such until six years...
  14. DanMcCollum

    AHC: Austrian Germany, Prussian Poland-Lithuania

    Okay, this is an odd little scenerio I've been playing with - largely because in its entirety I haven't seen it mentioned, and it definitelly falls into the Rule of Cool. Challange: With a POD no earlier than the Third Partitian of Poland in 1795 create a situation where Austria comes to unite...
  15. DanMcCollum

    Otto III Survives Longer

    Emperor Otto III died in 1002 at the age of 21. For much of his reign, being a child, he had been overseen by a number of regents (including Henry II of Bavaria who tried to rebel and overthrow the young King but was defeated). During the short period of his reign following reaching maturity...
  16. DanMcCollum

    AHC: Texia Delende Est

    Okay, this is a weird one! And I'll save you all the story of it's inspiration, save to say the above may have been uttered by me during a rather tense college football game a few years back :) In any case, the challange: Create a scenerio where the Republic of Texas not only maintains its...
  17. DanMcCollum

    AHC: Maximum Frisian

    Frisian is, of course, the closest language(s) to English (well, excluding Scots because, though I do see it as a seperate language, I don't want to rustle that particlar beehive). Today, the largest dialect/language of Frisian is spoken by about 400,000 speakers or so. Your challange, should...
  18. DanMcCollum

    AHC: The Holy Nubian Empire

    Warning: This was totally inspired by an epic campaign of questionable realism on CKIII Okay, now that that is out of the way The Challange: With a POD after 646, have an Empire form amongst the Nubians which eventually grows to encapsulate Ethiopia, Egypt and the Holy Lands. The dominant...
  19. DanMcCollum

    AHC: Greek Carthage

    An idea popped into my head today, and I thought I'd submit it here to see what thoughts people have. Carthage was founded about 814 BC, and Greek colonization efforts would begin a few decades later when the Euboeans founded the first first colonies in Southern Italy and into Macedonia. So...
  20. DanMcCollum

    AHC: Gallic Speaking Roman Gaul

    Since there always seems to be a plethora of posts here about what if *insert region* maintained a Romance population after the Fall of Rome, and because I seem to be a natural contrarian at times, I ask the following: What if there was still a larger population of Gaul speaking Gaulish at the...
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