Recent content by david3565

Agreed, though to a certain extent the Ivy League influenced the patterning of American colleges in general. If it is founded in Pennsylvania, it has a chance of more directly influencing politics in Virginia, which was a political battle ground between abolitionists and slave-holders during...

To an extent, but one has to consider the educational scene in the US as a whole during the period. OTL, black colleges developed as a means to educate young black men and women largely locked out of the old mainstream institutions. In 1808, the Ivy League colleges were still developing their...

Indeed. Hamilton founded the first abolitionist society in New York and also helped found a school to educate young black men. Anyway, I don't want to interrupt the flow of thought, so I'll be quiet now. :)

Post-ARW, there was a strong abolitionist movement that shared support among prominent Founders, as well as some prominent free educated Blacks, but steeply declined from around 1810-1820, as many among the Founding generation died off. So, how does it happen and what are the long term...

What if Jane Austen had come to America? What would have been the effect on her work and American literature in general?

Yup, I still skim every few days. Are you talking about your "much larger Rome" or "Napoleonic Roman Empire" ?

I may end up turning the source material in to a novel (I'm a writer) about the founding of a black colllege in 1808, so I'm debating whether or not to continue it as a timeline here. Part of the problem is that the source material I need is mostly in dead tree texts, so I need time to track...

It isn't so much a matter of the recording medium as it is the means of capture. You need something sensitive enough to pick up and transmit sound waves with limited amounts of distortion. I think the Chinese are the best candidates for an early development of sound recording. They have a...

Oh, and with no Poor Richard, you loose sayings like, "A penny saved is a penny earned," "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," etc.

Yes and no. The kernel of American political thought came from Early Modern and Early Enlightenment thought, drawing heavily on Anglo political and legal traditions, rooted in the Westminster flavor of Reformed Christianity. American Revolutionaries skirted or rejected several key ideas of...

The Continental Congress sent a proposal/plea to King George to restore the former conditions and relationship between the Colonies and Britain before hostilities ensued. Needless to say, good 'ol George declined the offer. And George might consider strong-arming the Parliament, but King...

The abolition of slavery seems to have been one subject upon which many Federalists and Republicans were in agreement and quite a few of the Founders that hailed from Virginia were vocal abolitionists themselves. Jefferson actually introduced a number of measures, both in Congress and the...

My apologies. I misread part of your post.

Don't have Caesar ascend to power. With out him and the succession of emperors after, you don't have centuries of borderline psychotics doing their best to run the Empire in to the ground, along with the violent uphevals and coups that resulted.

IIRC, Aristoleanism replaced Platonic thought, so there is precedent. But, I think you're making two assumptions which are incorrect: 1. That philosophy and theology with in Medieval Christianity remained completely static and monolithic. 2. That Aristoleanism, Platonism, or any type of...