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The defense of Capitol Hill from The Rivers of War.

It's not like the Mass Bay colonists still aren't coming. Remember, Plymouth wasn't the earliest foray into New England; there was a failed colony in Maine in 1607. The English aren't just going to forget about their colonial claims just because the Pilgrims found the correct spot. What is...

One of the smaller states probably would've picked up the slack. We might be talking about the Georgia or the Connecticut plan instead.

Also, no one these days would remark on the incongruity of the New York Jets and Giants playing their home games in New Jersey, not New York. ;)

My opinions: 1) It was certainly a war the US wanted more than the UK. The US was ambitious in its youth (which is not to say they weren't ambitious after that...;)), saw Canada as "easy pickin's", and had just enough justification on the issues of naval impressment, trade embargoes, and the...

The Japanese hope, from my understanding of it, was that the strike at Pearl Harbor would cause the US to knuckle under and let the Japanese have free reign in the Pacific (simultaneously, it would also knock out US retaliation capacity for a certain length of time, assuming they also managed to...

Some "Canadian" US state flags for a timeline spreading from a US victory at Quebec in 1775, where in the mid-1800s the US is able to purchase Rupert's Land from the British. I wanted to design a new flag for the state of Acadia (OTL New Brunswick), but am at kind of a loss at how to proceed...

Russia would probably become the predominant land power in Asia. Without Japan to compete with, Russia gets to be the power that kicks China in the teeth, taking Manchuria and Korea, as well as keeping Sakhalin and the Kuriles. The spoils of China will then open up, but I look out for the US...

Yeah, Featherston isn't gonna punk out. He'll be inspired by AS Johnston (possibly with the cliched "I see his statue, remember his sacrifice, etc." in the writing) and want to go down fighting. At this point, he'll probably be overtaken by the delusion that anything really can be done to stop...

OK, so I'm working on a scenario in which, through earlier diversions, the United States enters World War I at its outset, in 1914, on the side of the Entente/Allies. Now, I have a good idea how I'm going to have the later portions of the war progress, but I get kinda stuck on what a...

No, I think the US reaction to a potential British-Japanese war would be thus: 1) "Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys." 2) "I wonder if we can sneak some guys down and grab a chunk of Australia too."

That's Supreme Emperor For Life George. And no.

Well, you're gonna have to discuss that with them, aren't you ;).

We wouldn't have "God Bless America" played during the seventh inning stretch in many parks, that's for sure. Assuming nothing else different, here's how I see it playing out: AL Playoffs: The Yankees still pull together the victory over Oakland. While not "winning for New York" in this...

I wouldn't put it past 'em to be yes men. Especially since the Confederacy seems to have all of three people who aren't, and from what we saw in The Grapple, they're none too fond of one another.

I think it's implied that Featherston is pulling out all the stops to make this nuclear thing happen for them, even if it means diverting resources away from essential industries. The ends will justify the means if the Confederacy gets the bomb, in Featherston's noggin. If it means losing the...

I doubt that the US would be kept out of the war at all. For one, they still would maintain possession of Guam, Wake Island, and Samoa (more a S. Pacific than W. Pacific possession, but would certainly be a threat if Japan manages to overrun Australia); furthermore, the Aleutians do project out...

Just to start out, a common misconception about the claim that they meant to settle in Virginia is that the intent was to settle in the area now occupied by the state of Virginia. The original London Virginia Company patent covered the entire stretch of coastline from Long Island Sound to Cape...

Probably everyone inside the I-495 loop would need to be resettled, as without Boston city, any suburb that survived would probably wither without the jobs within the city, and most of that loop is Boston-centric. Let's just say for the sake of argument that resettlement will be definitely...

It may still be so that the "New Brunswick" area of Nova Scotia gets enough population to petition for statehood. I say this is especially likely if the Acadians, removed from Nova Scotia by the British, return now that the territory is in American hands. In that case, they may not want to be...