[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed. To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Just a couple more days of Frederick Douglass and then we get a break until some 160-year-old event happens. Hopefully someone else has something about February 1856 to post.

Chapter 8 continued from January 1856 reply #137.

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Chapter 8 to be continued. "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," by Frederick Douglass, (1892 edition)

[Texas Fossil]

In Texas in 1856:

City of Dallas was granted a charter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Dallas,_Texas_%281856%E2%80%931873%29

On 2 February 1856, Dallas was granted a town charter during the Regular session of the Sixth Texas Legislature. Samuel Pryor was elected the first mayor along with a Marshal, a treasurer-recorder, and six aldermen.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Today we have two excerpts from "The Dred Scott Case." Oral arguments (Round 1) begin today.

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Don E. Fehrenbacher, "The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics" (1978)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Today we have the first excerpt from a book I posted about in December.

The following mentions Lincoln's long-time law partner, William "Billy" Herndon. Outside his family Herndon may have been the most important person in Lincoln's life.

William H. Herndon

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David Herbert Donald, "Lincoln" (1995)