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  1. WI: University of Michigan placed in Detroit rather than Ann Arbor

    The Ann Arbor Land Company offered the land to the University only after they failed to get the state capital... The original school that preceded the university was located downtown... but I think it'd struggle to retain that campus alone. Belle Isle is close by and empty... I think the...

  2. WI: Henry Frederick became King of England?

    I think they mean Catherine de' Medici (1593-1629), daughter of Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Some of the younger daughters of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy may also be considered (Maria Apollonia, etc.) - as I recall the negotiations were ongoing at his death and the Medici had...

  3. WI: Henry Frederick became King of England?

    He's probably marrying a Catholic if Elizabeth has already been promised to Frederick of the Palatine. A Savoyard princess, perhaps. He was already forming a counter-court to his father, composed of younger, more militant and Protestant men than his father's favorites. It's an open question as...

  4. Alternate presidential library locations

    Al Gore - Nashville, maybe at Vandy. John Kerry - Chestnut Hill, MA? (JD, Boston College) John McCain - Phoenix. Mitt Romney - If he's elected in 2012 his only real ties to Salt Lake City are his faith and organizing the 2002 Olympics. Not sure if this would be enough to avoid another Boston...

  5. Why is the Colonial America period so glossed over?

    It's interesting that Jamestown was being abandoned when those marooned on Bermuda finally made it to the James River. It's interesting that as the English Civil War raged there was relatively low morale in New England and people were going back home to fight or to the Caribbean to pirate the...

  6. AHC/WI: Another independent nation in North America...

    Pre-1650 POD: New Netherland, New England, Virginia-dominated America, French Canada. There are problems with French colonization but they are not intractable, arguably. With more powers in play it would be possible that a few native states can play them off of each other and maintain their...

  7. The Dominion and the Union: An Alternate North America

    I imagine this is an OTL map, because I highly doubt the Great Dismal Swamp canal would be completed across a border (not that it was much used regardless...). I am almost salivating at the effect the integration of the St. Lawrence will have on Montreal, Canada, and Detroit in the coming decades.

  8. Entertainment in a Confederate Victory

    Certainly Southern Gothic's critique of modernity would look differently without the post-Reconstruction malaise - though there would still be racial and class contours to explore as artfully as Faulkner or O'Connor did IOTL. What makes you say that? How is the plantation economy *not*...

  9. How could Soccer could have become more popular in the USA?

    First: Your view of American soccer is rather outdated, but this is an alternate history forum not a future history challenge, so it's somewhat immaterial. Briefly: MLS has >$1b in revenue these days (7th highest national soccer league world-wide), their minimum salary is $67k (Walmart greeters...

  10. How could Soccer could have become more popular in the USA?

    I mean every Anglo settler colony is an outlier in this respect. Something something psychologically distancing oneself from the motherland (and industrializing just as early or being far enough away that they solidifed their own rules before England could spread it across the world). Just like...

  11. Decolonization of North America In A No ARW World?

    The specific ARW of our OTL failing doesn't mean there won't be others. It was really only because of their failure to retain America that Britain learned to have a lighter hand with her colonies. But conceding that they manage to do so (likely by playing regions against one another...)...

  12. How realistic is this alternate USA? Current year is 2021 Anno Domini

    I'm skeptical of Superior being it's own state - why would Michigan give up the eastern half of the peninsula they had from 1805? I suppose it could be established as a state during the mining booms, though. (Did Michigan still lose the Toledo strip?) I'm also curious as to why there's no Arkansas.

  13. Prince Henry Frederick lives, what happens to Charles?

    That might be a bit harsh. Certainly it would be a major facet. On the other hand, I have no doubt Charles serves for many years as Henry's right hand man and a principal voice for the Crown in Lords. Whether this is for good or ill in the three kingdoms is up to the timeline author. While many...

  14. Sports What Ifs.

    Booms can't go on forever. NASCAR alienated its core market in favor of the richer, but more fickle, one and lost a lot of its iconic race tracks in the process. Market conditions change - I would point out that it's boom also correlates pretty closely with peak American nostalgia in the...

  15. Prince Henry Frederick lives, what happens to Charles?

    Having been enmeshed in the literature around this time period ahead of a potential timeline of my own, a few thoughts: It was a good joke, a great joke even, but I think it was just that - a boyhood joke by Henry towards a brother he almost never saw. By the time they were both young adults...

  16. French New York: More like Quebec or New Orléans

    Exhausting the fur supply in the Hudson, Connecticut, and other Atlantic-facing watersheds would push them inwards just like OTL. Controlling Quebec and Montréal is vital to controlling that seaway.

  17. Have St Andrews, St Davids and St George day celebrations as big as St Patrick's in the USA

    American identity is Anglo-Scottish identity with a post-1900 POD. I'm surprised there isn't more to St. David's Day but I guess there aren't enough highly concentrated Welsh areas for it to work. Could we get a St. Piran's Day for Cornish Americans? If either of those communities had more of a...

  18. What if medieval Christian priests were allowed to marry, but not sire children? No vow of chastity.

    The medieval clergy conceiving of sex/marriage without reproduction is such a violation of natural theology that it's ASB.

  19. Military coups in USA lead to far-right dictatorship? Basically an American pinochet?

    I think your best bet is to avoid the liberal constitution (in the Rawlsian sense) that was firmly established by the Constitution. Limping along with a weak Articles of Confederacy until someone takes action... Aligning with Intosh I think the best point of comparison is 19th century Latin...

  20. Wi: Dutch Australia, English South Africa

    Indeed - reliable ways to determine longitude were not achieved until the 1760s (when both British and French rewards were claimed) and not wide spread until the 1780s or 90s. Yet the VOC required the Brouwer route from the 1620s... "By 1642 the VOC had knowledge of approximately half of...
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