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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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.

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Senator Brown, of Mississippi * – 1-2
Contents – 2
Editorials – 3-4
The Lounger – 4-6
Bohemian Walks and Talks – 6
The Island of Labouan – 7-9
Town and Country – 10-12
The Capitol Extension, and New House of Congress – 13-15
A Moslem War-Song – 15
The Story of a Man of Business – 16-17
My Yankee Maid – 17
Miscellany – 18-19
Nena Sahib’s Executioner – 20
The Wives of the King of Delhi – 21-22
The Cuirass – 22
Famine Aboard! – 22-23

* Albert Gallatin Brown Wikipedia page. His party is not identified there. He was a Democrat.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from February 5 (reply #17).]

February 9. To Mozart Hall tonight for Professor Davies’ inaugural. He drew a good house. Talked mostly about mathematical language and logic. That field being rather dry and chalky, he strove to relieve it by sundry parenthetical gushes of eloquence, ornate tropes, rhetorical artifices, and flights of fancy not at all in the key of x + y, and generally calculated to excite a feeling of “goooseflesh.” He turned on a tremendous head of elocutionary steam at his exordium, and kept increasing its pressure down to is peroration, and on the whole, piled up the agony beyond what was called for by any known function of x. But deducting the platitudes and the bad taste, it was a very respectable address. . . .

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas