1896

According to the Spanish diplomat F.E. Reynoso, in 1894 the Japanese offered to buy the Philippines from Spain for 40 million pounds sterling. However, according to Reynoso this offer was not accepted.[20] According to the scholar C.E. Russell, in 1896 Spain was rumoured to have offered to sell...

Although very unlikely, it wasn't impossible for that to happen, so what if he had flipped a few states and won the election? What would be the impacts on economics, race relations, foreign policy (Especially the Spanish-American War) and the 1900 Election? Does that butterfly away the...

William Jennings Bryan somehow gets assassinated during his inauguration, and makes way for inexperienced vice president Arthur Sewall. What would Sewall's presidency be like?

A number of threads have discussed how unpopular Cleveland was in 1896, and how any gold Democrat would have had problems. This made me curious. Sure, Carter was challenged heavily by Ted Kennedy in 1980 before winning, but the economy wasn't in the tatters it was in back in 1896. So, perhaps...

In 1888, Democratic President Grover Cleveland lost re-election to Republican candidate Benjamin Harrison. While he would reclaim the White House in 1892, the closeness of the 1888 election (all Cleveland needed was 15,000 more votes in the state of New York) and the eventual political emergence...

What if Benjamin Harrison won election to a second term as president of the United States? Specifically, what if he won election to a second term in 1896, AFTER he had lost re-election to Grover Cleveland in 1892? What could the effects of such an outcome be? Could the Republicans even be...

Hello AH.com! This is my second attempt at a TL about William Jennings Bryan. I started the other one while over four years ago and I know a lot more about history now than I did then. For me, William Jennings Bryan is one the most fascinating figures in American history and I'm surprised he...