massachusetts

Prologue: An Old Colony with New Challenges For several decades, Massachusetts was regarded as one of, if not the outright most important of the English colonies in North America. Massachusetts was the site of one the first permanent English settlements in North America outside of Virginia...

The idea of RFK as Attorney General was basically only done with Joe Kennedy maneuvering, and congressional leaders not wanting to start off the new administration on the wrong foot. JFK himself was hesitant to the idea, and RFK was only confirmed by a voice vote. New York Times heavily...

To clear things up, I am referring to the attempt by Metacom, sachem of the Wampanoag, to defeat the Puritan colonists in Massachusetts Bay. Despite the fact that the Wampanoag and other associated tribes took grevious losses from European diseases, and were even further disoriented by the...

Alright, so from the 1800s to 1952, Martha's vineyard had it's own sign language that almost everyone, deaf or not, knew. With a pod of 1900 or later, how do you stop it from going extinct?

In 1994, Senator Ted Kennedy was narrowly defeated by moderate businessman Mitt Romney. Early polls showed a neck and neck race, and Kennedy hoped for a Hail Mary in the pre-election debate. But despite Kennedy's best efforts, Romney's strong showing in the debate put him over the hump and he...

1035: OTL coastal Massachusetts "Fleeing the violent skrælings of the north, and not deterred enough to leave, Thorfinn Karlsefni departed south in the early years of the 11th century. He and his settlers traveled down the east coast of the newly discovered land until they reached a great bay...

In 1819, Massachusetts agreed to allow Maine formal secession from the state after decades of tension with Boston. What if, in an alternate timeline, Maine was allowed to secede from Massachusetts instead of becoming a state in the US, became an independent republic. Would Monroe be able to...

In 1848, Zachary Taylor's men offered the Vice-Presidency to legendary Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster. Yet Webster declined, and Fillmore was given the position instead. It would be Fillmore, not Webster, who ascended to the Presidency upon Taylor's death in July 1850. What if Webster had...

What if Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld had run against Ted Kennedy in his 1994 Senate race, rather than Mitt Romney going against Kennedy and Weld running against John Kerry in 1996? This article suggests he would have had a better chance against Kennedy, though it was written before the...

Actually, it wasn't John Fiske but Perry Miller in his Orthodoxy in Massachusetts that in 1638 when there was a threat of MBC charter being revoked, the colony's leaders would have risen to an armed resistance if necessary, and possibly the monument in Bunker Hill would celebrate an earlier date...

In the Puritan colonies of New England, there had been separatism from the beginning. In Massachusetts Bay, governor Winthrop in his letter to the English lords of trade warned in 1638 that if the King was about to enroach upon their liberties in any way, the people of the colony would doubtless...

In 1833, former President and then Congressman John Quincy Adams ran for Governor of Massachusetts under the Anti-Masonic ticket. He finished with 29%, behind the National Republican (who got 40%), but ahead of the Democrat and Working Men’s nominees (who got 25% and 6%). As no one got a...

Hello everyone, I don't know what quite to say for an introduction as this is my first post here. Anywho, I've been tinkering with a timeline for a while, so I figured writing it up here would be a good idea. Any and all criticism is welcome. Enough blabbering, here's the timeline. "We are...