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Happy New Year, my dear alternate historians! And Auld Lang Syne, whatever that's supposed to mean. You may or may not remember me as Marianne Bottler's humble editor -- it's no skin off my nose if you don't. But in any case, Ms. Bottler has returned from the void to offer another vision of the...

A Crippled History of New England by Marianne Bottler ~ Preface ~ – Blake Baldwin, from the March 2012 issue of Philadelphia Whig I’m as surprised as you are to see a history book with my name on the cover. History and politics have always been my father’s domain. I’ve lived in my own...

I was reading up on Mary Wollstonecraft the other day. She had one of those lives that's beautiful, terrible, and brief, and it got me sad, but it also got me thinking - what might the world look like if Mary got a longer stay on Earth? In OTL, she died 10 days after giving birth to her...

So, I've been toying with the idea of an America that is essentially born divided in the aftermath of the Revolution. Washington dies, maybe of pneumonia or something soon after the Treaty of Paris. Shay's Rebellion is larger though somewhat less organized and manages to take Springfield Armory...