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Excellent work. I like what you did with Chicago, making it more of a state and less of a city state. I'm looking forward to hearing about the culture and diversity of the UAR.

Hancock was the Governor of Massachusetts and if we take that to be an indicator of how he would act as president, expect a very hands off approach. Hancock's term as governor saw him do as little as possible, and trying his hardest to avoid controversial issues as much as possible.

Hate is hate.

Just finished reading this, excellent work! Keep it up.

Did any one else catch that Matoaka Palace is a museum now? Maybe the royal family has fancier digs in a new capital? Maybe they all lost their heads in a violent revolution? Can't wait to find out.

Exactly, what time period are we talking about? Does Aragon never join with Castile? Is their union only a one generation thing? Did Leon somehow become the dominant Iberian state? We're missing a lot of important context.

Truly, Octavian was a god send for the Romans, I don't see them surviving long if they keep the status quo. The great genius of Octavian was to transform the Republic, with all of it's civil wars and upheaval, into something that could provide the stability needed for the empire to stay...

I have a feeling that these aren't settlers so much as would be raiders in search of easy pickings.

Philadelphia is to close to the border, way to exposed. I know when the founders were thinking of where to place the capital Staten Island was on the short list. I think Staten Island is a good idea, it's in New York but kind of not. New England would probably be the prime proponents for...

Our timeline James had one legitimate son, James Francis Stuart "The Old Pretender", who I assume would get the kingdom handed back to him as James III. James II had two illegitimate sons. One, Henry was kind of unremarkable. However the other (unhelpfully also named James) who was a general in...

An interesting wrinkle indeed. Reminds me of Portugal and Brazil, how will the colonists react to having their own king, only to be abandoned by their monarch who returns across the sea? Will they be ruled by some sort of Viceroy? Will they just return to the way things where?

Great update, loved the Luther Bliss name drop!

An earlier Highland Clearance?

As to New York I remember reading somewhere that the colonists wrote a letter to William and Mary asking to be given back to the Dutch, as William was Dutch. William was loathe to do this as getting the crown of a nation and then giving part of it to your homeland isn't the best optics. New...

I could see it being argued that giving James a small realm in the nascent and underdeveloped colonies would be preferable to having him out there as some boogeyman for any dissenters to rally around. Eiether way, great timeline idea, I'll be watching this.

If your still thinking of combining some of the realms here are a few ideas: -Maine and New Brunswick are pretty similar culturally and economically -I'm not sure, but, it looks like central Illinois in a native state in TTL named Tecumseh? I'm not sure what the deal with OTL Indiana is, maybe...

Heart of Darkness? It was a short story that would eventually influence "Apocalypse Now". Kurtz (in the book) is a rouge ivory trader in the interior of the Congo who more or less makes himself a god to the natives.

I love the Custer as Kurtz idea!

The Confederate States is perfectly engineered to be a failed state.

You could have an ultra-royalist Prussia and Austria along with a sort of Confederacy of The Rhine or German Confederation stand in. Basically these two states dominate the German speaking world so all the other motley crew of kingdoms, arch-duchys, duchys, et al. Band together in what starts as...