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Easy access to the Dnieper, Don, and through the Don the Volga would seem to open up much of the western Eurasian Steppe to contact and trade. The principal challenge of the Eurasian Steppe - decadal invasion by nomadic warriors - is muted by the peninsula's defensive characteristics and ability...

No or a stunted Reformation probably slows down the idea of nationalism in general, given the role of the Peace of Westphalia in establishing and enforcing ideas such as state sovereignty. An unbroken Catholic Christendom does not necessitate states as the primary guarantor of people's rights...

Just to piggyback off what @Gwyain said above, reforestation in the wake of human depopulation in Eurasia (after the Black Death) and the Americas (after the Columbian exchange) may have served to capture carbon and sequester it, thus reducing global temperatures.

I believe some argue that the post-Columbian epidemics and population losses also contributed, so I wouldn't consider a timeline that delayed or avoided those as ASB for preventing the Little Ice Age.

This bit about Hamilton isn’t quite true. On Nevis he worked for a trading house that dealt in slaves, his move to New York was funded by wealthy slaveowners, he married into the slaveholding Schuyler family, and at one point he arranged the purchase of slaves either for himself or for his...

The Nazis are fighting a war of extermination, there is no advantage to surrendering.

Surviving Al-Andalus/Taifa successor state is involved in colonization of New World. If that "African descent" includes North African then their existing links with the Maghreb mean North Africans end up immigrating to the not-Americas.

Is the consequence simply replacing the Abbasids with a new, Zanj-approved ruling dynasty that gives spoils to its supporters or would there be a genuine element of social revolution?

Prohibition was a response, in part, to increased Catholic German, Southern European, and Eastern European immigration who were seen as dangerous drunks and sexually licentious. The CSA is unlikely to encourage or experience this in numbers anywhere close to what the historical US had...

True enough. Early Southern domination of the US resulted in them losing the final conflict. I'm curious if there's a historiography that paints the various compromises with Southern power then not as conceding to a white supremacist element in American history but an attempt to build Northern...

Seceding too late. A south that leaves in the 1830s or '40s could fight to a peace.

The North's policy towards folks escaping slavery by heading towards the Union is also relevant, I think. While the Union in a successful Confederacy scenario will probably be anti-slavery if only in reaction to their secessionist neighbor, I doubt the US and especially the border states will...

If this is simply a normative consideration, LBJ should have packed it up and withdrawn every American troop. South Vietnam was a colonial vestige ruled by the military and a religious minority tied to the former colonial power, there was no way to maintain the state's legitimacy in the eyes of...

The Reeman despots were actually quite important for preventing Keltic domination of the Latin peninsula. I suspect with a weaker "Romule" you see the Taurins, Lingons, or Insubrens push all the way to Magna Graecia, maaaybe Zizia. (OOC: Punic word for Palermo, expanded to all of Sicily)

Building Confederate statues seems ASB to me, beyond the occasional nutjob doing so on their own property. Is there any country in the world that regularly erects statutes to the losers in a traitorous war of rebellion against itself? You don't see the Union of Central European Council Republics...

The Khanate of Sibir was a Mongol successor state that seems to have used indigenous Siberian tribes in their form of rule. If Russia fails to expand east or does not exist I'd imagine they would come to subsume much of the region.

Al-Muqanna was a Persian in the 750s who burned his face in chemical accident and thenceforth wore a veil in front of his face. He claimed to be a prophet and created a syncretic religion that merged elements of Zoroastrianism and Islam. He tried to raise a rebellion against the Abbasids...

How far back can the POD be? Getting a little bit more of Mexico is definitely possible with small changes, but the 20th parallel includes a lot of Hispanic Catholics to integrate into a country which is reluctant to do so, and also in territory that has banned slavery since 1829. Once Mexico...

Who controls the Suez canal? In OTL Nasser shut it down from '67 until Sadat reopened in '75 to prevent the Israelis from using it. Since these border hold until 2020 I'm assuming some sort of deal has been reached?

Poe only moved up North due to the estrangement from his father and leaving West Point. He had spent the majority of his youth in Virginia despite being born in the North and had inherited an uncle's estate in Richmond. A military career and a comfortable life in Virginia very well could see Poe...