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I don't think the U.S. was serious about going to war, not so soon after the ACW. I always believed it was just diplomatic saber rattling. It would take over a generation before the U.S. was ready to fight anyone other than indian tribes.

I hope everyone appreciates the irony that there is a discussion going on about the existence of Jesus in a thread dedicated to a timeline where he was never born. Wouldn't it be easier just to say that a man was born (or in this timeline wasn't) who was either (A) The son of God (B) A...

What happens after Buell gets back to Nashville? He probably hides behind the cities defenses til he absolutely has to make a move. New Orleans and island #10 still fall. I'm not sure what Johnston's next target would be, but I doubt its Nashville. Corinth and its railroads are safe, that...

I couldn't agree more! Fandom was the very foundation of Trek. Don't get me wrong, I love the later series, but I do miss the time when Trek was a participatory experience rather than a product manufactured by Paramount. As to your question, UESPA may have arose from the same source that...

Having to tolerate Bragg's 'leadership', I would think that Longstreet would be tranferring west asap. Jackson might, but I doubt it. Could we end up with a Confederacy collapsing in the east as the west begins to recover from its earlier defeats? If thats so then the Confederate capital...

The army, because of the Quasi-War with France, was under the command of the man who had organized it, Alexander Hamilton. The main problem with Lee as commander of Confederate forces is that, unless the conflict begins after dec. of 1799, Washington would talk him out of it. Lee and...

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 and 1799 caused so much concern about southern secession and possible civilwar that Alexander Hamilton suggested privately that the Army should be sent into Virginia. I could see things going really, really wrong and some form of civil war taking...

Given that alot of that came about from the cultural impact of the World Wars, maybe have them take place earlier? Perhaps a first world war that the U.S. is involved in longer and with larger numbers of troops could turn the roaring twenties into something like the fifties. Side-stepping the...

What about all the consequences beyond the absence of those particular TV shows/movies? Would we have any sci-fi television shows or movies without those earlier works? What about the world out side of sci-fi? The twilight Zone had a huge influence on a generation of sci-fi fans (some went on...

I read recently that a few months before his high school graduation, when he was obsessed with auto racing and not movies, George Lucas had a near-fatal car accident. What if he had died at eighteen in that accident? What if both Rod serling and Gene Roddenberry had been killed while serving...