american political development

  1. Simeon

    Black Settlement into the Philippines; is its potential intriguing enough to speculate upon it?

    from this file: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12903&context=etd&ved=2ahUKEwi1wPOwkaCBAxX7-jgGHRUkAqMQFnoECBMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2dUIWP18EhuFmj-YYPcFDZ I am personally leaning on the potential of the...
  2. The_Persian_Cat

    Joseph Smith for US President!!

    Hello all, So, this is a bit of a weird one. Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, ran for President of the United States in 1844. Now, there is little chance that he could have won in real life -- Mormons were extremely unpopular among mainstream US Protestants, and Smith and his followers had...
  3. How could the Sewer Socialist movement spread outside Wisconsin?

    Hello on the board! I want to know how the reformist, Milwaukee-based "Sewer Socialist" movement could have spread to other parts of the country (or at least to Chicago) and created a lasting political force in the United States. My personal theory is that it could have spread if the rest of...
  4. Cevolian

    TLIAD - Drawn Differently

    Seriously, another one? I don't do completion ok, its practically my thing at this point. I thought your thing was writing unfunny intros? Watch it, I had half a mind not to do one these opening duologues. I wish you hadn't... ... Why are you doing this anyway? Well it started out as a...
  5. creighton

    WI: Bush asks them to read his lips

    What if Bush 41 refuses to raise taxes in the 1990 fiscal year? In the short term, would he have prevailed, or had to fold later? Would there have been a shutdown? I'm also trying to think long term, and wondering if Americans for Tax Freedom and other things get butterflied. ...sorry if...
  6. Founding Family: An Early American TL.

    I'm taking a hiatus from anything Ice and Fire related and working on a more classically alternate history project. The point of divergence involves John Laurens, an often overlooked but really quite interesting figure in the ARW. Part of the POD is that Laurens survives the war, but the actual...
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