History Literature / BringTheJubilee

''Bring the Jubilee'' is a 1953 novel by Ward Moore. Considered a classic of AlternateHistory, the novel depicts a timeline in which the Confederacy won UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar and became a world power, leaving the United States of America as a crumbling backwater. The novel's protagonist and narrator, aspiring historian Hodgins [=McCormick=] Backmaker, is born into this timeline long after the war's end, and in the alternate 1950s becomes involved in a time-travel experiment. He embarks on a historical-research trip back to the Battle of Gettysburg, which accidentally results in far-sweeping changes.

* TitledAfterTheSong: The novel's title comes from the pro-Union 1865 song "Marching Through Georgia", about Union general UsefulNotes/WilliamTecumsehSherman's famous march.

* TitledAfterTheSong: The novel's title comes from the pro-Union 1865 song "Marching Through Georgia".

* TitledAfterTheSong: The novel takes its name from the chorus of the pro-Union 1865 song "Marching Through Georgia".

* TitledAfterTheSong: The novel takes its name from the pro-Union 1865 song "Marching Through Georgia".

* PleaseSelectNewCityName: Mexico City is is known as Leesburg, named after Robert E. Lee. The city is located in "the District of Calhounia", presumably named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Calhoun John C. Calhoun]].

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The novel takes its name from the 1865 song "Marching Through Georgia".

* RippleProofMemory: Reasonable in this universe: Hodgins and all of his possessions remain as they were in his original timeline (as evidenced by the fact that he exists at all).

''Bring the Jubilee'' is a 1953 novel by Ward Moore. Considered a classic of AlternateHistory, the novel depicts a timeline where the Confederacy won UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar and became a world power, leaving the United States of America as a crumbling backwater. The book's protagonist and narrator, aspiring historian Hodgins [=McCormick=] Backmaker, is born into this timeline long after the war's end, and in the alternate 1950s becomes involved in a time-travel experiment. He embarks on a historical-research trip back to the Battle of Gettysburg, which accidentally results in far-sweeping changes.

** The defeated United States is not a pleasant place to live, especially if you're not of European descent. The country does not have a transcontinental railroad, whereas the CSA has seven and even British America (Canada) has one. UsefulNotes/NewYork has less than one million inhabitants in 1938, which is about seven times less than in real life 1938. Also, women can not vote, except in the state of Deseret.

* AlternateHistory: Although [[spoiler: thanks to Hodgins' inadvertent Civil-War era meddling, he ends up living out the rest of his life in our timeline.]]

* CrapsackWorld: The defeated US is not a pleasant place to live, especially if you're not of European descent. The triumphant Confederacy is a prosperous nation which welcomes immigrants, but grants citizenship only to descendants of those who were citizens at the time of the Civil War victory. People of color are, if anything, treated ''worse'' than they were in slavery.

* FallenStatesOfAmerica: As noted, the US is split in two, with the CSA prosperous and spreading its influence throughout the New World while the remnants of the USA stagnate and decay. On top of having a reduced military enforced on it by treaty, it's implied that the USA's domestic policies see constant meddling from the Confederacy to ensure it stay stagnant.

* ForWantOfANail: Hodgins blunders into contact with a platoon of Civil War troops, one of them dies, and [[spoiler:the CSA loses the Battle of Gettysburg and then the Civil War.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Some alternate versions appear, a typical example being UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower, who is evidently a minor officer in the depleted US military and writes a book on tactics that Hodgins approvingly mentions reading.

* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Hodgins' narrative, written in his old age, breaks off in mid-sentence, with a post-script applied by the person who found it years later; whether he literally died while writing will never be known.]]
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: References the pro-Union Civil War era song "Marching Through Georgia".

* RippleProofMemory: Reasonable in this universe: Hodgins and all of his possessions remain as they were in his original timeline (as evidenced by the fact that he exists at all).
* SpaceFillingEmpire: The CS swallows not only some additional states from the Union, but also goes on to conquer Mexico, Central America, and South America. Across the Atlantic, the German Union stretches from Belgium to Finland.

* BoomTown: Haggershaven is an intellectual version where the Confederacy's best and brightest have fostered a bustling R&D hub. [[spoiler:Thanks to Hudgins' inadvertent meddling, however, the town is never founded, with the Haggerwells never coming to prominence. Instead, the site where the town would have been is nothing more than rural homesteads in our timeline.]]

* FallenStatesOfAmerica: As noted, the US is split in two, with the CSA prosperous and spreading its influence throughout the New World while the remnants of the USA stagnate and decay.

* BoomTown: Haggershaven is an intellectual version where the Confederacy's best and brightest have fostered a bustling R&D hub. [[spoiler:Thanks to Hudgins' inadvertent meddling, however, the town is never founded, with the Haggerwells never coming to prominence and being nothing more than rural homesteads in our timeline.]]

* CrapsackWorld: The defeated US is not a pleasant place to live, especially if you're not of European descent. The triumphant CS is a prosperous nation which welcomes immigrants, but grants citizenship only to descendants of those who were citizens at the time of the Civil War victory. People of color are, if anything, treated ''worse'' than they were in slavery.

* RippleProofMemory: Reasonable in this universe: Hodgins and all of his possessions remain as they were in his original timeline (as evidenced by the fact that he exists at all).

* FairForItsDay: As far as women are concerned. Barbara Haggerswell, the only female Haggershaven fellow of note, is also the only one we see to be emotionally unstable and incapable of forming a lasting relationship. On the other hand, she ''is'' the most brilliant physicist on the planet.

* {{Bookworm}}: Hogins spends several years happily working and reading in a bookstore in New York City.
* CrapsackWorld: The defeated US is not a pleasant place to live, especially if you're not of European descent.

* RippleProofMemory: Hodgins suffers this, following the spoilered events listed above.

'''Bring the Jubilee''' is a 1953 novel by Ward Moore. Considered a classic of AlternateHistory, the novel depicts a timeline where the Confederacy won UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar and became a world power, leaving the United States of America as a crumbling backwater. The book's protagonist and narrator, aspiring historian Hodgins [=McCormick=] Backmaker, is born into this timeline long after the war's end, and in the alternate 1950s becomes involved in a time-travel experiment. He embarks on a historical-research trip back to the Battle of Gettysburg, which accidentally results in far-sweeping changes.

* RippleProofMemory: Hodgins suffers this, following the spoilered events listed above.

* {{Bookworm}}: Hogins spends several years happily working and reading in a bookstore.

* ForWantOfANail: Hogins blunders into contact with a platoon of Civil War troops, one of them dies, and [[spoiler:the CSA loses the Battle of Gettysburg and then the Civil War.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Some alternate versions appear, a typical example being UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower, who is evidently a minor officer in the depleted US military and writes a book on tactics that Hogins approvingly mentions reading.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Hogins' narrative, written in his old age, breaks off in mid-sentence, with a post-script applied by a person who found it years later; whether he literally died while writing will never be known.]]

* MadScientist: Barbara Haggerwells, who invents the time machine Hogins uses.

* ForWantOfANail: Hogins blunders into contact with a platoon of Civil War troops, one them dies, and [[spoiler: the CSA loses the Battle of Gettysburg and then the Civil War.]]

'''Bring the Jubilee''' is a 1953 novel by Ward Moore. Considered a classic of AlternateHistory, the novel depicts a timeline where the Confederacy won UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar and became a world power, leaving the United States of America as a crumbling backwater. The book's protagonist, Hodgins [=McCormick=] Backmaker, is born into this timeline long after the war's end, and in the alternate 1950s becomes involved in a time-travel experiment. He embarks on a historical-research trip back to the Battle of Gettysburg, which accidentally results in far-sweeping changes.

* AlternateHistory: Although [[spoiler: thanks to Hodgins' inadvertent meddling, he ends up living out the rest of his life in our timeline.]]

* FallenStatesOfAmerica: As noted, the US is split in two, with the CSA prosperous and spreading its influence throughout the New World while the remnants of the US stagnate and decay.
* ForWantOfANail: Hogins blunders into contact with a platoon of Civil War troops, and..

* RippleProofMemory: Hodgins suffers this, following the spoilered event listed above.

'''Bring the Jubilee''' is a 1953 novel by Ward Moore. Considered a classic of AlternateHistory, the novel depicts a timeline where the Confederacy won UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar and became a world power, leaving the United States of America as a crumbling backwater. The book's protagonist, Hodgins [=McCormick=] Backmaker, is born into this timeline long after the war's end, and in the alternate 1950s becomes involved in a time-travel experiment. His historical-research trip back to the Battle of Gettysburg results in [[spoiler: the accidental creation of our real-life timeline, stranding him in a new unfamiliar world.]]

* AdaptationExpansion
* AlternateHistory
* AlternateTechline
* FallenStatesOfAmerica
* RippleProofMemory
* RubberBandHistory

'''Bring the Jubilee''' is a 1953 novel by Ward Moore. Considered a classic of AlternateHistory, the novel depicts a timeline where the Confederacy won TheAmericanCivilWar and became a world power, leaving the United States of America as a crumbling backwater. The book's protagonist, Hodgins [=McCormick=] Backmaker, is born into this timeline long after the war's end, and in the alternate 1950s becomes involved in a time-travel experiment. His historical-research trip back to the Battle of Gettysburg results in [[spoiler: the accidental creation of our real-life timeline, stranding him in a new unfamiliar world.]]

* PatchworkStory