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  1. The Decade Without A Summer

    Coming from the thread about the weakest United States possible...... 1901, Yellowstone Volcano erupts. I honestly haven't done enough research on the topic to know how it affects the world, but thats why I'm posting. Anyone care to discuss it?

  2. DBWI: Humans in the New World?

    WI, upon the discovery of the New World, there had been a discovery of aboriginal inhabitants? I don't know how they get there- maybe a land bridge to Asia, maybe a West African migration into the Andalucian*, or maybe there is an earlier Iceland-Greenland-Vinland hop by primitive fishers...

  3. The Rough Rider- William Jennings Bryan

    "Universal peace cannot come until justice is enthroned throughout the world. Until the right has triumphed in every land and love reigns in every heart, government must, as a last resort, appeal to force."- Colonel William Jennings Bryan Just found out that he joined a militia regiment in...

  4. Earliest Black President

    Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to plausibly get the first black President of the United States before 2008 with any POD after Brown v. Board of Education.

  5. Draft Cuomo in '88

    To tell you the truth, I don't care how he gets the nod. But assume that he does. Who does he pick as VP? Is Bentsen still a possibility? And how well does he run? Is there anything like Willie Horton to use against him?

  6. Welfare State before Civil Service Reform?

    Recently, I was reading a book which compared the political appeal of the post-New Deal welfare state to the appeal of the protective tariffs of the Gilded Age. Essentially, both provided a lot of government jobs and provided a lot of popularity to the party which supported it (until, of course...

  7. A Parliamentary Autocracy

    The Rise of the Congressional Czars: An Account of the Parliamentary Autocracy Priscilla Sinclair Helicon Publishing Newark, NJ (1904) [1] Excerpted with permission 1868 was a fateful year. It was a year in which the Congress veiled its actions as a step from the shadow of state's rights into...

  8. The Wallace Affair

    Chapter I: Northern Shambhalla “I have been thinking of you holding the casket- the sacred, most precious casket. And I have thought of the New Country going forth to meet the seven stars and under the sign of the three stars. And I have thought of the admonition 'Await the Stone.' We await the...

  9. Nevermind

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  10. Naval veterans as president

    Getting a naval veteran elected president earlier would be interesting, especially as modern history has seen many of them (Kennedy, Nixon, etc....) However, in the post-Civil War era, So, we come first to a man who actually was courted for the Democrats in 1900- Admiral George Dewey. Can...
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