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Hello Chums! I'm starting the process for my alternate Ireland story: Syndicalist Ireland! I have a start on sources about social revolution in Ireland (the last big shot at that in the timeframe I'm looking at was the IRA-Civil war, in the form of the Anti-Treatyites largely having the...

Hey Everyone! I've been away a good long while. However, while I'm working on some alternate history articles for the mid-future (Mamluk sultanate!), I'm working on an interconnected series of homebrew one shots set in an undead Roman empire. This may include settings like: -Independent...

So my short story "The Crustacean Count" got picked up by a local theater production for a reading on October 30th. It's the mostly true (I swear, the Rosenbach Library in Philadelphia keeps all of Stoker's weird shit sealed away and I was lucky enough to get a look for a few days with paper and...

I've got some primo history work for you wonderful guys. I'm working on a Seven Part Series on Nestor Makhno (Ukrainian anarchist, writer, war-leader and general pain in Trotsky's ass, which means he is ok in my book) with the help of Sewer Rats Productions. Facebook page for links to the...

The 3rd Crusade was a weird one but still one of the most famous of the European fumbling in the Levant. It has the big names--Richard III, Saladin, Rashid Ad-Dinan Sinan of the Naziri...it could have broken any number of ways other than the treaty at Jaffa (the establishment of the island of...

I'm not much of a pugilist, but I do find the history of boxing fascinating. In particular, two of boxing's greatest legends--Jack Johnson, the first African-American to break the color-line and become world heavyweight champion, and Jersey Joe Walcott of Camden, New Jersey. Both were fantastic...

So I'm reading a book by Lauren Berlant called Cruel Optimism. The idea behind the title, the core concept, can be easily explained with this quote: "A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. It might involve food, or a kind of...

Hey guys, this is my first thread, so I'm a little nervous. I'm pondering the imponderables and a scenario flashed across my brain. What if Bayezid I managed to take Constantinople instead of rushing off to battle Timur the Lame at Ankara in 1402? His disastrous defeat at Ankara opened up the...