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.
Link to November 1857 thread
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
A Visit from Saint Nicholas * – 1-2
Monthly Record of Current Events ** – 3-5
Editor’s Drawer – 6-12
Imagination versus Reality – 13-14
Fashions for December – 15-16
* “. . . Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap . . .”
That’s not exactly how I remember that line.
** Financial panic! – continued. Election results from various states, including wacky Kansas.
Army wagon trains heading for Utah have been attacked by Indians. “The speeches of the Mormon leaders, as reported in the Deseret News, are full of defiance.”
News of the Indian mutiny is also reported.
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("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from June 12 (reply #21).
Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America
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("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from November 7 (reply #20) .
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
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12/08/2017 4:54:42 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
I posted a report on this book way back in March 2016 (reply #93). This is the first excerpt. In about 5 years these two down-and-outers will have some altogether different tales to swap.
Jean Edward Smith, Grant
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To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from November 30
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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
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