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An Interesting Story Offhand, the only short story I can think that took on this very idea was this one, which I first read in 1989, if memory serves correctly. It was a fairly interesting and engaging story.

CSA = North Korea? I have the feeling that an independent CSA would more than likely end up kind of like North Korea in OTL, that is, a pariah state, isolated and closed off behind barbed wire and machine-gun towers, clinging to a discredited ideology (that chattel slavery is a good and...

You're probably thinking of "The Shiloh Project" and if so, that is probably the first AH novel I ever read too, if that is the first one you read. David Poyer wrote that novel, published in 1981. I believe you can find it on Amazon.

President Lee I don't know if this has been posted yet, but in almost every "The South Wins The Civil War" book I have read, just like it's assumed that the CSA would expand/annex into the Caribbean, it's always assumed that Robert E. Lee will run for and become the next President of the CSA...

Southerners in Brazil Interesting thread. If memory serves correctly, there _were_ some ex-Confederates who left the South for Brazil in OTL, after the Confederacy's defeat. They essentially ended up becoming assimilated in Brazilian society, if I recall correctly. And sure enough, Wikipedia...

German Invasion of Ireland I remember reading a suspense thriller set in the 1970s or 1980s (I probably read this book 10 or 15 years ago, I think) in which a journalist uncovered evidence of a German plan to invade the southern part of Ireland to use as a base against which to harry British...

The Proteus Operation I'd love to see a movie made from James Hogan's The Proteus Operation, a book which came out in 1985 about an alternative WWII and how it gets "fixed" to become our timeline. It's a very interesting book and a good read.

I'm game. Here's a curveball POD that comes completely out of left field: At some point during the American Civil War, for whatever reason, the British government, primarily at the behest of those in the British upper classes who were sympathetic to the Confederacy and/or wanted a check on...

Overall, on a plausibility scale of 1 to 10, 1 being "The Alien Space Bats have invaded this timeline and have shat all over and through it" and 10 being "This is as realistic AH as the first 20 minute of Saving Private Ryan are to depicting what D-Day was like" I would say that the first part...

I vote for Option 1. This is such an interesting timeline to follow and you're doing an excellent job filling it out. Keep up the good work!

This. Definitely this. The only people I really felt sorry for (aside from the Black population in the CSA) were the Canadians. Just off the top of my head ... They're subjects of the British Empire and are therefore allies to the CSA. Britain uses them as a base to raid the US during the...

This, exactly, is pretty much my response to this thread. Stirling is probably the better writer of the two of them, but at least Harry Turtledove is a trained historian and ought to know better. When he gets it right, he gets it right, but when he gets it wrong, man does he ever get it wrong...

From page 352, of my hardback copy of IaTD, Pinkard's first lawyer is talking to him at their first meeting: "The charge though, is crimes against humanity, and that can mean whatever the people who make it want it to mean." That sounds to me like the US authorities basically charged Pinkard...

This, especially the first part. Whether the US wanted to try former Confederate officials and military officers depends on what their definition of "War Crimes" is. I think that is the main reason Col. Potter got to walk away a "free" man. The US military authorities probably decided that...

Post Whenever You Can That's fine by me, I don't know about anyone else, but I am very patient and your continuation of Harry Turtledove's TL-191 is one of the most fascinating and engrossing things I've read here. Post away as you can and I for one am quite grateful for your posts, whenever...

HBO could do it And they could do this series justice, IMO. The series is long enough and big enough that they could easily get a season's worth of episodes out of it, possibly two full seasons. And as far as casting goes, Morgan Freeman would make for an excellent Scipio/Xerxes. If HBO made...