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Has Armenia been absorbed into the SU? If so the Turks might indeed join in Barbarossa.

When I was around 14 or 15 I started a yarn where two time travellers went back to the Battle of Gettysburg and accidentally changed its...

All I’ll say is that if Hitler died before WW2, he might have been remembered as the greatest German statesman since Bismarck.

If Lincoln lives, the VP's opinions won't make a diddlysquat of difference - especially in his case, given his embarrassing performance...

Fair enough. But can we then agree that any such measures are going to be pretty limited, and that, as OTL, the vast majority of...

Further thought. He might also have pushed for Section 2 to include a proviso that anyone over 21 who had served in the Union Army or...

Probably because the Republicans saw this idea as having been superseded by the 15th Amendment, and, later, that falling back on it...

That's why I said one or other version. I think it distinctly possible that the original one would have gone too far for Lincoln as well...

Why would Lincoln want more radical measures? His big job now is to rebuild the Union. He'll do what he can for the Freedmen, but at the...

Well, he only had a small derringer and it only needs someone to be in his way or grab his arm to stop him getting a clear shot...

Perhaps if the Great Compromise (giving all states an equal vote in the Senate, doesn't get through (iirc iit finally passed 5-4). And...

Why? If we had to unload ourselves of an unacceptable King, there were plenty of Princes and Princesses waiting in the wings. Keep in...

I think Charles Oman suggested it, because the name "Cerdic" bears a suspicious resemblance to Caradoc or Coroticus. Alfred Duggan...

He was half-Danish, his mother Gytha being King Canute.'s cousin. I've seen it claimed online that his father Godwin was descended from...

That and all the heads he chopped off [1] There's a reason that he is the only King of England whose picture *every* Brit would...