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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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Jacob Little, Esq. – 2-4
Contents – 3
Editorials – 4-6
The Lounger – 6-7
Fifth Avenue in the Country – 7-8
Hymn to Old Ocean – 9
Launch of a New Crinoline – 9
Fact, Fancy, and Fun – 9-10
The Man Who Failed After Trying Both the Right and Wrong Way – 10
A Week at Baden; Being a Leaf from a Bohemian Tour– 11-15
The Ex-Policeman’s Story – 16-21
Views In and About Salt Lake City – 21-23
How I Became a Priest – 24-25
Scenes at a Bathing Place – 26

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Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America

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David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

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Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Good grief, that is a LOT of reading to do each week. I understand that in such olden days there were not a lot of activities. TV, radio, music, movie, and a million hobbies can keep us active today. Back then it was fishing and a few assorted other hobbies when you weren’t busy working.

My hat is off to anybody who found a way to read every word of this each week. I remember having a daily newspaper years ago and perhaps this compares, but there were entire sections I didn’t read. The sports section was ignored except for my team. Classifieds and obituaries were ignored, as well as society pages and entertainment.

I am just amazed how much reading this is to do each week. I guess, if you had nothing else to occupy your time...

[Ciexyz]

I enjoyed scrolling thru that old issue. Interesting to see the phrase “What’s up?” used in 1858. I read thru the fiction piece - melodramatic literary fiction of that era.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

George L. Stearns, September 20, 1858

BOSTON, Sept 20, 1858.

MY DEAR FRIEND, — Yours of yesterday is at hand. I should prefer Saturday at seven P. M., if that is agreeable to Mr. Parker and yourself. If you decide on that time, please notify Mr. Parker and Dr. Howe. If you do not write me to change the time, I shall be there without further notice.

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 515

civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com

George Luther Stearns Wikipedia page

[Tax-chick]

“Mystic Hall Seminary for Young Ladies” (right column page 7) sounds like it would prepare the young ladies for higher studies in sorcery, perhaps in Europe, but advertises “Horseback riding and salt-water bathing.”

According to “Medford (MA) in the Victorian Era,” the school opened in 1855 and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1879. Thus, if you sent your daughter there in the fall of 1857, she would get only two years, at most, of the salt-water bathing and moderate climate of Medford before having either to change schools or to move to sweltering, disease-ridding Washington, just in time for some war or other that might happen.

They weren’t making it easy for parents in the 1850s, either!

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Continued from September 15 (reply #17) .

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