New Orleans – James Snyder

Birth of the Steampunks, New Orleans Style

Among other things, dealing with its so-called Manifest Destiny and that “trifling little scuffle” called the Civil War, the United States missed the First Industrial Revolution and was almost late for the Second. But it soon made up for lost time, by the early 20th century becoming the leading industrial nation in the world. Prior,

Gilded-Age New Orleans Was Not “The Big Easy”

Alternate Journeys, Books Geneses / James Snyder / September 2, 2026

On the pleasant, bird-chirping morning of 24 April 1862 alarm bells suddenly rang across the city of New Orleans, announcing the Old South was over and the New South had arrived quicker than a hummingbird’s eyeblink. Admiral David “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” Farragut and his armada had broken through the last lines of

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