Under this TL, not only do we get no Age of Jackson, we also get no James K. Polk Presidency. I predict a milquetoast America goes on to lose Louisiana and Mississippi to Spain in the Spanish-American War. Pancho Villa later burns Omaha.
This TL seems more about an alternative Dunkirk, than about how things would have been different had Churchill died in '31. But then, didn't Churchill go on the radio and request the evacuation at Dunkirk by British civilians? Its been a while, but I seem to recall reading that, so maybe...
The movie "Amistad" never gets made, because without John Quincy Adams as an ex-President serving as their attorney, no one really cares about a movie about a slave rebellion aboard a ship (and they might have even lost their case, without ex-President Adams as their lawyer). Other than that, I...
Assuming the Germans could get a squadron of bombers into the vicinity of the Canal Zone, its not too unlikely that they'd catch us with our pants down the first time they attacked. Although with Argentina in the Axis, alert levels would probably be higher.
I'd forgotten about that, although I don't know if Hiram Johnson would necessarily become the Presidential nominee; that would be up to the rules of the Progressive Party. But yeah, they'd probably still get enough votes to elect Wilson, unfortunately.
The United States banned the international slave trade in 1808. The fact some criminals continued to perpetuate it as a form of contraband smuggling is irrelevant. The fact is, we still have an illicit international trade in slaves in this country. It was just a few years ago that a married...
That's still for the Supeme Court to decide. The mere fact Lincoln went to war settles nothing.
If it were to happen, that might well be the most likely way, but all that would actually be required is a favorable decision by the Supreme Court (technically, if could be decided by a regular...
Well, its been established that Ron Paul has some potential electoral appeal, and while it wasn't realized when he ran as the LP nominee in 1988, let's say he loses the 1988 LP nomination to Russell Means that year, and stays in the Congress. Then he runs again in 1992, albeit in the Republican...
General knowledge of American history should suffice. All the books I've read on the subject since the Reagan administration, perhaps? If you're going to assert that history is different than how it has always been perceived, you are the one who needs to provide a citation.
Any mainstream...
The German Navy kept the Royal Navy out of the Baltic Sea, which was about all they could do (outside of U-boat activity, of course). And the initial invasion of Norway was a surprise attack, with German soldiers loaded onto ore freighters, which were thought to be arriving in order to collect...
But the Royal Navy controlled the actual water. If the Germans could have invaded Britain, they would have. Hitler's lack of enthusiasm for Sealion almost certainly stems from his awareness that the Royal Navy would ensure its failure. This is 1940 and '41, after all, when Hitler was still at...