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In general, I'm not a big fan of speculative history.

What if the Nazis won?

What if Lee Harvey Oswald missed?

What if New Coke was a spectacular success?

Because the butterfly effect is real, and the disruptions in the timeline that these hypotheticals pose are so

enormous that there's no way of knowing what would have happened. History isn't a steady

stream of events. It's a scintillating fractal that confounds the human mind with its sheer

complexity. But speculative history sure is fun sometimes. And on today's Saturday matinee, we're asking the question,

what if the Louisiana purchase never happened?

Would Canada be on the United States' northern and western border?

Would we be in serious competition with a much larger republic of Texas?

Would people in Kansas City, Omaha, and Little Rock be speaking French?

From an episode of the podcast, History Analyzed, comes, well, an analysis of the history

behind the Louisiana purchase, what it was, how it happened, who was responsible, and then

the big speculative, what if it didn't happen at all? I hope you enjoy. While you're listening,

be sure to search for

and follow History Analyzed.

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