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While obviously not the focus of the work, I'm curious to see how the USA develops after Lowden. He'll be able to paper over the cracks in the Republican party much better than his OTL counterparts, so that it erupts into internecine conflict (progressive Hoover Republicans versus...

Kyril's a nasty piece of work to such an extent that Vladimir f'ing Lenin honestly was the better choice. OTL he announced that the gulags and purges of the Bolsheviks were fantastic ideas and he'd definitely be keeping them when he became Tsar. His mother's been scheming to put him on the...

The horse originally evolved in North America and spread to Eurasia the other direction. It doesn't need to be moved. It needs to be saved from its local extinction, which occurred after humans were present (which may or may not be related).

All true, but...it looks like RP just gained an important sort of backwards ally. The Americans were humiliated by their complete irrelevance in the Argentine coup and countercoup. The Monroe Doctrine was just slapped down. And France was the only major European nation to not take part in it, so...

This is wonderful work. The Russia part feels like a strange personality transplant to me, though. OTL's Cyril was a megalomaniac with no regard for human life - faced with such rebellion from Daniken, he might have shot him on the spot, personally. And one could not ask for more hidebound...

Really? Who's the most prominent surviving Blanquist named in the narrative? You know, the guy you hate, who already has concentration camps and an army under his control, whose reputation for extremism is exactly what the shocked and mourning majority will be looking for in their grief? This is...

All Democrats are not equal, nor are all Socialists. Berger and his Wisconsin faction are so good at keeping their mouths shut about unnecessarily divisive subjects that "real Socialists" (the kind that can't win elections) deride them as Sewer Socialists and other, less pleasant epithets...

Such extensive grants are possible, but Charles doesn't need to do anything so extreme as rearrange boundaries or alter charters immediately (and he won't give Gloucester anything comparable to what York gets. Precedence matters). With all that in mind, the logical grant to Gloucester is what we...

You get schism again. The Papacy's credibility outside of France is at an extreme nadir after Innocent; now an attempt to fix the problems from the top down has been squelched by assassination. There will be a Pope in Rome after this, and everyone outside of France will count the Roman pope the...

"Imagine the disaster"? really? And you're a history teacher? Burr had to be cajoled and bribed into running for President by Jefferson because the latter needed a northern running mate and Burr was simply the northerner who distrusted him least. When the vote was a tie, Jefferson threatened...

1860 is much too late for such an amendment to have the slightest chance of passing. The beating of Senator Sumner, the execution of John Brown, Bloody Kansas: The Republicans won every state in the North precisely because the idea that the South must be made to pay for its crimes was so...

First: it's very difficult to arrive at the plans, goals or motivations of Burr because he was meticulous about not writing anything down in the first place, and destroying written records once they were no longer needed. The picture you paint is the commonly accepted one...and it's entirely...

George IV is a 22-year-old man and decent enough fellow at this point, not the bitter, twisted 59-year-old degenerate he was when he took the throne OTL. I very much doubt he is weak OR lazy; his OTL sniping at his father's government and his sponsorship projects suggest otherwise. What he is...

To echo others - Atchison does not fear a special election because he believes he will win it. And since the events that make him nationally unacceptable have not transpired yet...he's almost certainly correct in 1853. He will need a doughface like Buchanan for his VP. But then however Kansas...

In 1616? Hardly. Besides, they don't even have the beginnings of a political theory that could account for a Japanese state without the Emperor. And while Thespi may be planning to actually spirit the Emperor out of Japan, that...will be an incredibly tough sell, plausibility-wise. Basically...

Just so. To hang oneself is to admit wrongdoing, guns are men's tools and knives are for madwomen; it's poison or drowning for someone of her station and gender.

Adams' reelection is certainly a possible consequence, because the debate of these Acts is likely to be one more point of contention between Jefferson and Burr, leading to a weaker ticket and possibly delivering New York to the Federalists. A very interesting premise. I hope you go forward...

Putting it into the Constitution is indeed ASB - the American framers were very clear on the idea that States decided who did and didn't have the right to vote. Any verbage on the question would have met with near-universal opposition, and for something as quixotic as enfranchising women, that...

The image I tend to have of a surviving Hamilton is actually that of Joseph Kennedy - as others have pointed out, Hamilton could never win a national election even if the duel didn't happen, but...he has multiple sons who might, and having a genius financier for a father often helps one's...