-from State of Anacostia > Washington

-james smithson lives broadly otl life, wills estate to usa as otl

-his nephew henry james hungerford lives life as per otl, lives opulent life with smithson estate but less opulent as otl

-because his airs as "baron de la batut" get viewed as a little too comical, also war in france means less stuff to spend it on in paris

-hungerford dies in 1834, estate goes to british court and president clay sends richard rush to retrieve bequest

-some controversy as some in congress want to refuse bequest, driven in part due to slaver fear that this sort of bequest could be used for compensated abolition

-court of chancery amalgamated into supreme court recently, results in case being swiftly dispatched in favour of usa

-richard rush invests estate into stock market very isely and without investing too much at once

-enlargens bequest to nearly two times equivalent harvard bequest (in otl it was nearly the harvard bequest, but it's much more because of revolutionary british market volatility being higher)

-returns this to united states, the britannias get melted and recoined as eagles

-massive debate over what to use it for springs up in congress

-turns into something similar to otl, except because jqa never becomes president his presence is weaker, and as a result he fails to stop it from including some professors and students

-not a full-fledged university in any way, but closest thing to a national university there is

-joseph henry still becomes its head, stretches out smithsonian's influence as far as he can in his long tenure

-accepts there is some lecturing and a faculty, but minimizes it in general

-eventually in 1869 storming of capitol by southerner mob hits, joseph henry and his faculty's moderate antislavery views results in them fleeing to philadelphia

-after dc recaptured, he gets to move back

-becomes henry winter davis' science advisor etc.

-after civil war joseph henry soon dies, but smithsonian reconstituted nicely

-then post-civil war existing educational institutions ramped up quite a bit, discussion of national university makes comeback

-in 1879 other university colleges get built, after constitutional amendment they are secured well

-with postwar construction smithsonian gets expanded, grand mausoleum to james smithson halicarnassus style is constructed

-becomes the foremost face of the national university, predominately with graduate students who are active in research

-at the same time includes a vast collection of the nation's stuff, placed in a grand museum

-also includes koh-i-noor

-from Albany, New York

-"second" in terms of stature

-quickly named after joseph henry soon after construction in honour of his great role as smithsonian head

-is more of a traditional university college, which

-from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

-from Baltimore, Maryland

-Columbia, South Carolina

-from New Orleans, Orleans

-from Richmond, Virginia

-from Concord, Indiana

-from Cincinnati, Ohio

-from Toledo, Michigan

-from Alton, Illinois

-from St. Louis, Missouri

-from Petite Roche, Arkansaw

-from Nashville, Tennessee

-from Boston, Massachusetts

-from Frankfort, Kentucky

-from St. Augustine, East Florida

-from Pensacola, West Florida

-from Chicago, Wisconsan

-from Winona, Minasota

-from Belleview, Platte

-from Atlanta, Georgia

-from Topica, Kansas

-from Rochester, Jefferson

-from Port Angeles, Olympia

-from Tahlequah, Kadoka