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New Month, new thread. I will continue with excerpts from the authors named above. Feel free to add items from other sources. It turns out that the May 24 edition of the Chicopee Mass. Weekly Journal was their last. I hope to replace it with selections from Harper’s Magazine in the near future, but I’m not set up for that just yet. I finally figured out that Harper’s Magazine is not related to Harper’s Weekly, which is available on line beginning in 1858.

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Continued from May 25 (reply #71).

Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era

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

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Continued from May 29 (reply #75)

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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New book!

I’m really enjoying Team of Rivals. As the title suggests it deals with the relationship among Lincoln and the men who competed with him for the Presidential nomination. These were primarily William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase and Edward Bates. It has also touched briefly on Edwin Stanton, future Secretary of War. (I have reached p. 230, at a point leading up to the 1860 Republican National Convention.) The book provides mini-biographies of each of these characters that make nice complements to what I have previously read in the Lincoln biography by David H. Donald. I will continue to read Team of Rivals to the point where the war begins, then switch to one of the bios I just got from Amazon – Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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I splurged and subscribed to Harper’s Magazine to gain access to their archive going all the way back to the mid-19th century. This could be fun. I need to get a new printer before I can do major posting since it is necessary to print out the pages in pdf format. World War II just about did in my old Dell printer so I need to replace it. Here is just a taste of what we will have to look forward to. Notice that the Current Events section includes some of the events we have been reading about in Bleeding Kansas

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