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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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A Morning at a Fashionable Church – 1-3
Publishers’ Card – 2
Our Means and Our Liabilities – 3
Governor King on Banking – 3
The End of Walker – 3-4
A Lost Fragment of a Gubernatorial Message – 4
The New U.S. District-Attorney – 4
Bribery of the Press – 4
Prospects of the Trade in Breadstuffs – 4
The Lounger – 4-6
Bohemian Walks and Talks – 6
Dogographs – 7-8
Travel Notes in Bible Lands – 9-11
Miscellany – 12-13

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[Continued from January 11 (reply #6). ]

January 18. William Aspinwall’s alleged Murillo is at Williams & Stevens’. I doubt its authenticity, and can’t detect its $12,000 worth of merit. What do they mean by calling it an “Immaculate Conception,” and are there any paintings so styled? I suppose it to be an Assumption, and am confirmed therein by Kosciusko Armstrong, who ought to know.

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

Bartolome Esteban Murillo painted several versions of the Immaculate Conception, but I happen to know that the one below is the one that William Henry Aspinwall has in his collection (a recreation of it will appear in the Harper’s Weekly of January 30). I understand Mr. Strong’s skepticism about the name of the painting. I would have called it an Assumption myself if I saw it without the explanation.