Without a definite POD, it's hard to be specific about personalities and events, but I can imagine some broad trends:
Radio remains the only way to experience live or up-to-the-minute events like news and sporting events. This butterflies the kind of vivid, cinematic TV reportage that had...
Is this actually a widespread belief? Are there a lot of people out there who think that Nixon was on course to lose the election, and that the Watergate burglary somehow propelled Nixon to victory? This is a very odd idea.
In 1866, Ernst Haeckel proposed the binomial name Homo stupidus for a recently discovered species of extinct European hominid. If William King had not already proposed the name Homo neanderthalensis two years earlier, Haeckel's name would have had priority.
There are immediately suggestions that Obama rigged the whole thing as a trumped-up October surprise. This becomes a long-lived conspiracy theory and fodder for Fox News.
Obama wins the 2012 election by a similar margin as in OTL, and Republicans convince themselves that they would have won...
So he dies in 1939/1940.
Assuming that his survival doesn't butterfly WWI, it would be fascinating to see his reaction to that.
How would he react to the rise of communism and anarchism?
How would he react to the establishment of a sovereign Polish state? Nietzsche believed adamantly...
This is one of those "dumb questions of history" that I've long been curious about. Rather than attempt a risky and expensive amphibious invasion of France, why did the Western Allies not simply ship their forces overland to the eastern front and join the westward push already in progress?
I...
And keep in mind that there was a lot of other stuff in the pipeline, even before the June 17 burglary went south. There were plans to firebomb the Brookings Institute, kidnap student radicals for the duration of the RNC, hire prostitutes to compromise Democratic politicians, forge documents...
Well, either communism would immediately collapse in Cuba, or Castro would go around reaping sympathy as a beard-martyr. I think the latter is more likely.
If Watergate isn't exposed, there's a strong possibility that Liddy and company are emboldened, and go on to do something even worse. Shenanigans at the Democratic Convention in Miami? Blackmailing the Kennedys? Whatever it is, Nixon tries to cover it up, and that becomes the scandal that takes...
Popular nickname for the Jewish Motorist's Guide, a directory of Jewish-friendly hotels, restaurants, and gas stations in the United States. It was published annually from 1918 to 1953, and was discontinued shortly after the Supreme Court struck down anti-Jewish segregation laws in Weinstein v...
A Paleotheist motto popular during the Roman revival of the 1960's, an abbreviation of "Juno And Venus Never Overlook A Heathen". It was often painted on walls or tattooed onto the arms of pious Pagans. Today the initialism is often used as a visual shorthand for the bacchic laurel-and-toga...
In Confederate politics, a polemical label applied by the Populists to the Conservatives, who are accused of disdaining the common Anglo-Saxon heritage of the CSA and the USA. The term often carries anti-Catholic and anti-expansionist overtones, and is often used interchangeably with...