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I'm not sure this requires such drastic and far-reaching intervention as actually altering the course of these crusades - it's just a matter of perception. Frederick William I of Prussia had some weird hobbies - he loved collecting tall soldiers and having them marry tall ladies. What if instead...

Eva Hitler (née Braun) and the five little Hitlers are sent away by Adolph for their safety before the fall of Berlin. They're captured by American forces and quietly released in 1947 - there was no real charge against Braun, and certainly not against the children. One day, Eva discovers the...

So as a response to white racists pulling guns on Federal troops John F. Kennedy goes Full Stalin, enacting the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing in America since the Trail of Tears, blatantly violating the constitution, blockading the state of Alabama and engineering an artificial famine...

Are you asking why West Germany would be motivated to fight an invasion of West Germany?

"Instead of horses, the Aztec conquistadors preferred specially bred German Slaves for transportation because they showed up on time." :neutral:

Okay, I'm going to try to get where you're going. If you want to have a black person rise to the Confederate presidency, without social revolution and roughly within the confines of the existing CSA political system, you need some kind of path for that person to get some kind of legitimate power...

Because it's a new covenant ;) Faith doesn't run on logic, it runs on faith. Why doesn't it matter that Jesus wasn't a King? That he didn't start the Messianic age of eternal peace? That he wasn't a descendent of David in the male line? Because the people who care about that kind of thing sat...

Have you ever noticed that the Bible explicitly says not to add anything to it? Surely this would preclude someone from creating a new holy book for the Christian religion. It would never be considered holy by the mere fact that it's an addition.

Judith has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that she mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. But God found fault with the people and said: “The days are...

Plenty of people didn't think Jesus fulfilled the prophecies, and still don't. If Judith gains a following, her followers will believe she is the Messiah, and if it perseveres they will develop historical and theological interpretations that either explain things in that context, or ignore them...

This is a pre-1900 one but people are already going for it so oh well: Dick Johnson. America's 9th Vice President, the only elected via the 12th amendment mechanism, was a bit of a character. Reputed to have personally killed Indian leader Tecumseh, Johnson was prone to tearing open his clothes...

Recycling some old musings on Texas secession from the Confederacy...

Notably "Victor" would also be King of Hanover, where OTL the crowns were separated upon William IV's death. Interesting implications during the era of German unification.

Many/most of the most wealthy and powerful people in the CSA were completely economically tied into slavery. Per David Blight, "In [1860], the nearly 4 million American slaves were worth some $3.5 billion, making them the largest single financial asset in the entire U.S. economy, worth more than...

"Welshman with tenuous claim attempts to seize English throne through violent conspiracy backed by French."

Packs of wild potatoes stalking the plains.

If the US ends up in a situation where it has a lot of tension with Germany, and has a German-speaking state on its borders, maybe there's more of a widespread anti-German sentiment. There are some threads to pull there - at the dawn of the nation, Ben Franklin was writing about how the German...

Random musings: Ideally the earlier the better to reach this goal - having the Texas Revolution occur and be crushed might make it a less desirable location for immigration. But on the other hand, a crushed revolution is certainly going to cut down the number of Anglo American settlers. While...

I feel bad for further derailing this thread, but how could one possibly come to this conclusion? What about, like, the existence of Augustus?

Wellington lived to 83. Metternich 86. Lafayette 76. George III 81. It was not at all uncommon for wealthy and powerful people.