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You should read Ed Glaeser's history of Boston. He notes that despite early advantages, Boston suffered from its location - the Charles was a small river, and after US independence the growing intra-national market favored ports closer to the center of the country, i.e. New York, Philadelphia...

Lol at "united."

Flanders and Brabant were part of the original Dutch Revolt, they were just conquered by Spain. A United Netherlands that does better in the war against Spain and manages to either hang on to Antwerp (so that it remains Antwerp-centered) or recapture it (so that Antwerp gets back its port but...

We're assuming the Civil War happens as in OTL but then instead of the 13th-15th Amendments the entire thing gets rewritten, right? Because that looks like a way more interesting (and plausible) scenario in terms of state formation. Presumably we see the following changes: - Instead of the 13th...

This happened in OTL - Germany's militaristic government picked fights it couldn't win, twice.

In 1968 a referendum for then-$2.5 billion to build a 5-line subway system in LA failed 55-45. If you can figure out a way to make it pass that could be an interesting TL.

I'm not a mod or anything, but I don't think it's a problem. It depends on what the exact POD is; @DTF955Baseballfan gave an extreme example, but there are a lot of other examples, like WI China is formally carved up into colonies, or WI Africa isn't, and how it would influence these places'...

I haven't written anything down beyond what I said in 2015-6 in threads you were in, sorry. The big issue for me is deciding which style to use; my Anglo-French TL is written in a Wikipedian style, and I'm not sure whether it works better than narratives (or even Wikipedian biographies) of a few...

That's not really an accurate description of Canada or Brazil. Canada got more white ethnic migration per capita than the US in the 1900s, and Brazil got so much European migration that the largest Italian city in the world is Sao Paulo. The big US-Canada differences are, 1. Canada got much...

A couple notes. 1. Whatever compromise comes up in the 1770s, a unionist parliament in Westminster is practically guaranteed by the 1800s, possibly shoehorned into the Act of Union. At most, there could be semi-devolved legislatures in North America with whatever powers Westminster can't...

I have an Anglo-American TL that has this. POV is vaguely in 1774; the important consequence is that the Revolutionary War is forestalled (rather than defeated) and the colonists get representation in Parliament, which reformers like William Pitt use as a way of diluting the British rotten...

Anne Frank was interned at a concentration camp rather than sent to the gas chambers; she died 2-3 months before the end of the war, probably of typhus. So the question is, if she survives Bergen-Belsen, what happens?

Online magazines started soon after the WWW and browsers turned the Internets into a mass product. Slate was founded in 1996 and was owned by Microsoft. Its roster of writers was solid second tier early on, and some became superstars later with political events - namely, Christopher Hitchens who...

Yeah, this. Schleicher came pretty close to succeeding, too. He began a jobs program just before Hindenburg replaced him with Hitler; if he'd managed to hold off for a few more months while the Reichstag wasn't in session and gone to new elections, which the Nazis would lose votes in, he...

It wasn't a big deal for Protestants until the 1970s. But within the public intellectual and pundit classes, it emerged as a liberal vs. conservative cleave in the 1950s, and intensified as secular second-wave feminism became an important component of liberalism. Secularism, in turn, has been a...

Maintenance would be a nightmare.

Aramaic and Arabic? Clearly different, but their core vocabularies and grammars have strong parallels. Hebrew, same thing - the formal grammar of Hebrew was written in the Middle Ages by Sephardi Jews who were adapting Arabic grammar to Hebrew.

The Malay world has nearly 300 million people, 250 million of whom are controlled by one state. A united Arab world could also satisfy your requirements, and then the question is to find a suitable POD keeping the Caliphate unified in the second millennium.

DocJamore is secretly mentioning this, channeling Robert Allen's explanation of the Great Divergence. Per Allen, Western Europe managed to be the center of world trade in the Early Modern era and this led to high wages in England and the Low Countries, spurring industrialization.

I'm not worried or anything. My Anglo-French timeline has a lot of it, e.g. search for the Oswald Perrin story, or search for the word genocide. I'm genuinely curious how other TL writers handle this topic when writing about colonialism, totalitarian states, total wars, etc.