Delighted to see this TL!
But would Salisbury have simply delayed to reply to the American communique, as he did OTL, in these conditions? Taylor's portrayal of him as the unrivalred master of diplomacy causes me to suspect he would have defused the crisis adroitly but with a slighly different...
Following with interest, but one minor point re "The Democrats finally took a filibuster proof majority, 61-39":
I haven't seen that the Senate rules have changed in this TL, so cloture would still require 2/3*-- 3/5 only came in OTL in 1975.
* Of course, this being a contentious topic, the...
Several years back a "SE Ketner" had a whole website of fiction up, including a fascinating (and lengthy) story set in an ATL-- "Confederate Soldiers", I believe.
Not only can I not find the story, it's as if SE Ketner has vanished from the Web. Anyone else remember the story, or know what...
Peerage title
Occasionally there is a fuss about the place name. In Duff Cooper's biography there is a protracted discussion of the complex considerations that led him to choose "Norwich" for his Viscountcy. Ironically, Norwich itself objected to his title, but as several (including Cooper's...