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The USA shifting from the ideal of the citizen-soldier militia springing to the nation's defense to a system of universal conscription shouldn't be that big of a plausibility problem, provided the USA has suffered a defeat severe enough to discredit the citizen-soldier militia ideal; and the...

True, but isn't South Sudan a rather extreme exception? It only gained independence after something like 50 years of war, and from a regime that is somewhat more than typically awful and doesn't have a lot of friends internationally. There's also the case of Eritrea, of course, but in its case...

My understanding is that the refusal of other governments to recognize Somaliland is based on a kind of domino-theory idea about borders and separatism in postcolonial Africa. Since basically all borders in modern Africa were drawn by Europeans in the 19th century, none of them have much...

I got up to 1860, which was the third year of a largely-stalemated Civil War ITTL. The last entry involved the assassination of President Seward by a Southern sympathizer, occuring just a few weeks before the election, and the succession of Vice President David Wilmot to the presidency. He...

In my unfinished timeline "Under the Eagle Flag," I was going for a somewhat dystopian United States in the mid-19th century. By the time I had to stop working on it because of Real Life interfering, I was modelling events on the late Roman Republic in an increasingly-conscious way, since I was...

^^ Ah, OK, thanks for the info!

Possibly so; a translation of the Iliad I read recently rendered her epithet as "grey-eyed Athena" (this is Robert Fitzgerald's English translation). Could someone who knows ancient Greek comment on this? (I'm assuming we have such a person, because AH.com is awesome).

I had an idea for a challenge: Wars Worse Than Civil; make a map depicting atrocities committed during a civil war. Has anything like that been done before?

With King's Landing burned, maybe Duskendale could be built into a new capital? It's in the crownlands (ie, not part of any great lord's territory), and a reasonably substantial port in its own right. The symbolism would be great for Robert, too: he gets to build himself a brand-new capital city...

No extension, no extension! If I'm going to win this, I want to win in such a way that my victory will be marred by allegations of fraud and illegitimacy! ;)

Cross-posting from MotF:

My submission. From a world where the Constitutional Convention fails and the 13 states become independent republics, with some eventually forming smaller regional unions. North Carolina stubbornly holds on to its independence, although from the middle of the 19th century onwards it is...

So the secessionists can't even get to 25,000 signatures in half of the states that actually did secede from the Union at one time. In a way this represents progress.

Dominion of Canada In the “Under the Eagle Flag” universe, same as my previous one for the United States. Since relations between the US and Britain are significantly worse ITTL, Canada unified somewhat earlier and has a slightly more centralized government. It is also larger, including...

I still think the best answer to the first half of the challenge is for Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales and eldest son of James VI/I, not to die in 1612. He certainly seemed to have the temperament to rule as an absolute monarch, and he was a Puritan-esque Protestant who could have avoided the...

I think HBO is an unlikely destination; TNT is probably more likely (they had already picked up Southland after it was cancelled by NBC) or USA (if the show stays in the NBC Universal family). But if another network picked it up, I think it could last quite a while: the cast at the time the show...

Great map, Marko! I'd really like to know the story of that one district in Croatia with a Czech majority. How did that happen?

Yay, this thread is back again! I had this in progress the last time it went away, so I finished it. United States of America From my “Under the Eagle Flag” TL. Long story short, the United States had a very bad nineteenth century. By 1866, a decade of chaos had torn the old Union apart...

Yes, pretty much. The USA defeated the CSA twice in wars in the 20th century, and after the last one the USA decided to break up its enemy. The US politicians who drew the borders created four nations instead of making each state its own country on the theory that that would mark a clearer break...

A misguided attachment to historical borders trumping aesthetics? Vandalia is made up of stuff that used to be part of Virginia, and was reconquered from the CSA in different stages.