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Chapter 12 Excerpt from “Oh That’s Rich” from "Madison: A Columbian Musical" By Lin Manuel-Miranda KING GEORGE III walks slowly with head bowed from far upstage to centerstage as light piano music plays. Once KING GEORGE III reaches center stage, he holds his head up straight and looks at the...

Chapter 11.1 From 12 Years a Democracy: An Electoral History of the Former United States, 1788-1796 By Adam Miller Beginning in early November, electors throughout the nation met to cast their votes for the presidency and vice-presidency. In some states, like Pennsylvania, voters had to first...

So, this is a draft map for the latest update for my WTLB TL (also sometimes called the Leveeverse), which has been almost a year in the making (good God, writer's block SUCKS). Anyway, this update features a breakup of the Ottoman Empire circa 1880 and the various states which emerge from...

Revised the 1796 presidential election for my "Mad Anthony Wayne" TL. The election will take place within the next few updates, so figured I'd post it here and get some feedback. My only goal is to have no candidate reach a majority, and for Anthony Wayne to be in the top 5 candidates by number...

In my experience, they are largely ignored.

Chapter 11 The ship lurched to a halt in Philadelphia. Thomas Paine swore as the sudden motion caused him to drop his inkwell; it shattered on the floor of his meager seaworthy accommodations, splashing ink onto his socks. He had been up since the wee hours, writing, and had neglected until the...

So, I must come to you, dear readers, with hat in hand and beg for your apology. In researching for the next update, I realized I made a pretty major booboo in an earlier update, which also affected the subsequent update. That, my friends, was an error in the makeup of the Supreme Court. In...

Yep, immigrant/passenger ship. Thank you!!

Hey all, quick question. In traveling from France to the US in the late eighteenth century, what American ports would a ship be most likely to dock in?

So I mentioned Aaron Burr in the latest update to my "Mad Anthony Wayne" TL (see signature) and I realized that, if my TL sees a balkanized North America after a French-style revolution, then I ought to include Burr's scheme being successful. So, among other changes, I have updated the modern...

Just now seeing this! For some reason I did not get a notification. Thank you for your kind words, that means a lot coming from you!

Chapter 10 “I appreciate you dropping in for a nightcap, general,” Judge Thomas McKean said as he replaced his cup of rum on the side table. The fire in the hearth was beginning to die down. McKean lifted himself from his chair and grabbed a poker from the wall to stoke the embers. In the chair...

Chapter 9.1 Senator Cabot died of his injuries the following morning, August 18, 1796. Senator Livermore hastily organized a vote of expulsion, and Senator Mason was removed from office by a near-unanimous vote. Even the most staunch Democratic-Republicans did not wish their nascent party to be...

Notably, there was an incident in 1798 when a Congressman (Matthew Lyon, DR-Kentucky) spit tobacco in the face of Roger Griswold (F-Connecticut) after the latter chastised him, in response to an anti-Adams speech, about the former's cowardice during the Revolution. Though the two were separated...

Chapter 9 Senator George Cabot[1], a Federalist from Massachusetts, had been standing at the podium for what felt like hours to Senator Thomas Mason, a Democratic-Republican from Virginia. In reality, he had been speaking for no longer than ten minutes. Mason though was quite tired of Cabot’s...