Recent content by MRig

I know folks here tend to have a dim view of the CSA's prospects, and the smart money is certainly on the Union. I generally don't do CSA victory timelines because A) been done and B) I'm a bit troubled by their association with a kind of wish fulfillment that Ta-Nehisi Coates calls the "corrupt...

Chesapeake Potomac Charlesland New _____ (New Essex, New Yorkshire, etc.)

I'm kicking around an idea for a story set in an AH universe. The story would be set in Houston in the present day, so the AH timeline is backstory and doesn't have to be realistic, but I'd like to at least make a go of a plausible backstory. The present day has the following characteristics...

The procedural concerns of Southern secessionists were essentially a smokescreen for their distributive interests -- that it was in their interest for slavery to survive. It's a common thing. Notice, for example, what people say about the filibuster depending on who is doing the filibustering...

No 3/5 compromise. Dan Walker Howe in What Hath God Wrought points out all the things that would get butterflied away by this, including the Trail of Tears and (IIRC) the Mexican-American War. More recently, I would love to see a successful People's Party. I'm not sure how to do this (maybe...

Cool! Then I guess the next question I would have is, what is the backstory of your world that is leading towards that future? Is it post-apocalyptic? What sort of apocalypse? If current transportation technologies are knocked offline, and Manhattan becomes, still a great city at the center...

Any interest in this one? I think it's an intriguing scenario with some interesting butterflies for the French revolutionary wars.

In this scenario, white supremacy is even stronger in the United States than OTL, and the interpretation of the United States and its destiny that rose in rebellion in 1861 would dominate the country. Filibustering expeditions would be more successful. A greater portion of Mexican land would be...

So the story takes place in an alternate, steampunk version of the 19th century? In what time period is the story set? I was under the impression that this was sometime in the future, which is why I was talking about 20th century urban planning trends, but steampunk means an earlier point of...

Well, I mean, it already does. Two of the five streets are gone, and the other three all have different names. There are honking big buildings that are used for major government business where they used to run. So, I'm suggesting that for the Five Points to plausibly exist as the Five Points...

The opening chapters of No God but God by Reza Aslan have some great information on pre-Islamic Arabia, though more focused on its spiritual and religious aspects. The cosmopolitanism of it in particular is fascinating.

There is a difference between improving the fortunes of an impoverished community, and forcing that community elsewhere. I went to the Five Points once, and it was unrecognizable. Though New York changes quite a bit, the city now changes less than the old city used to. The existing buildings...

The invasion never really got off the ground. They never actually landed on British soil, they were thwarted in some inconclusive naval actions. The plan was for France to retain Portsmouth. I like this. I was intrigued by an AH challenge thread about increasing the prestige of Czech language...

Here's one I don't think I've read here. The ARW was a far-reaching conflict, whose European powers kept fighting after the Thirteen Colonies had secured independence. Spain and France fought Britain in colonial struggles across the world, invaded Minorca and attempted to do the same at...

I think, um, I think that you are joking? If you are joking this is pretty great satire of Lost Cause/Confederacywank BS. If you are not joking this is so, so wrong.