New America: How America Could Have Happened
Table of Contents
Prologue: the Five Nations of North America
Introduction: Jason Wolfe
Part One: Mexico and New Spain. Maria Sanchez
Part Two: New France. Abraham Barbury
Part Three: Canada. Jaques Benoit
Part Four: New France Indian Territories. Aurora Macha
Part Five: New England. Sandra Simon
Afterword
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Prologue: The Five Nations of North America
What if North America today was divided up vertically along the original boundaries. With the English all along the Atlantic coast. The French down the middle along the Mississippi watershed. The Spanish in the west all along the Pacific. And Canada and Mexico would still hold forth in the north and south of North America.
Well Jason Wolfe will become a practitioner of what we call Alternative History. In his take on history, all of the dates, and almost all of the names of key people, events, and locations are real, and part of the recorded history. Most of the events actually happened. But in his Alternative History, the outcome is quite different. The victors become the losers. The losers become the victors. So, in the end it is fiction – but it could have happened this way. And imagine if it did!
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Introduction: Jason Wolfe
JASON: My name is Jason Wolfe. I am a history major from the University of North Carolina. I liked University life, and the studies as well, but I knew long before graduation that I did not want to teach. In that regard I was one of the fortunate ones, I knew what I did not want to do for a career as opposed to the ones who graduated only to drift on afterword. I was the one who also knew what he wanted to do. I wanted to write.
Of course the high water mark for writers is the novel. But I was aware that I did not have the work ethic, patience, or the talent to write a novel; mostly the talent was missing. Short stories or articles would be my calling and that is why I find myself working as a columnist for the Charlotte Herald.
My University studies in history have stayed with me as a nagging interest over the years. Maybe that is what set me up to attempt to explore the making of North America. It would be presented in a series of interviews. The key would be to find the right people to interview. They would tell the story, their story, as they understood it. And I would be the facilitator, the interviewer who would push the narrative along.
I knew that there are in fact three histories for the creation of North America. There is the history that is written by the colonizing government, the history that is written by the Church, and then there is the history that is told and handed down by the locals that have lived it. That is the history that I want to find and explore. The history that is handed down through story telling by families, generation to generation. I want to hear their personal history, as they understand it.
Looking at North America as it is today -- maybe I should not be surprised if the evolution of the colonial powers of North America ended, largely as they started. Some would say this would have been predictable. Predictable that the European colonizers managed to hold most of the lands they originally occupied some four hundred years ago, and which now form five nations of North America. We have the nations of New England, New France, and New Spain; plus Canada and Mexico to the north and south. I knew that a hundred years ago, many had predicted that the powerful nation of New England would expand to the west and create a united group of states of America from coast to coast. And certainly they tried, but that did not happen.
My journey will take me to the countries and territories that emerged as the North America that I we see today. My biggest challenge will be to find the people I will interview. But, if I choose wisely and with a good amount of luck, the story will write itself. It will not be a complete, or comprehensive history of course; and not necessarily a factual, valid, history. But it will relate many of the interesting, and significant events that have shaped the territorial borders of the five nations of my
North America today. Each nation with its own language, culture, and character. How did this happen? And, why?
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