[Homer_J_Simpson]

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.

Posting history, in reverse order

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]

The Yacht “Wanderer” – 1-2
“I Would That She Were Dead!” – 1, 3
Editorials – 3-4
The Lounger – 5-6
United States Steam Sloop of War “Brooklyn” – 7, 10
Snow Scenes – 8-10
Incidents of Travel on the Tehuantepec Route – 10-17
The Gringe Family – 17-19
The Inauguration of Governor Morgan – 20-22
Chess Chronicle – 22
Slush Times on Broadway – 23-24

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from January 13 (reply #6.) ]

January 15, SATURDAY. Went with Ellie last night to Dodworth’s rooms and heard Mrs. Kemble read The Tempest. She is fat, but not comely. Very admirable performance. Vocal resources wonderful. She has half a dozen voices in her; drew a separate stop for each character; produced a deep, sullen, brute roar and snarl for Caliban that seemed an impossibility from any feminine windpipe. Prospero’s tone was grand, and nothing could be more tender and gentle than her Miranda. Her tipsy Stefano was transcendent; equal to Burton in The Toodles, and all her comedy was rendered with a spirit of fun I did not in the least expect. No stage performance could be more satisfactory or bring out the beauties of the play (poem rather) more vividly. And what a glorious poem it is!

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

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Wow, Abe Lincoln would turn 50 a month later.

[C19fan]

Five cents for Dickens’ new tale “A Christmas Carol”. A laborer at that time would earn roughly $6 a week for sixty house a week. That book would cost the laborer 30 minutes of wages. Considering just a few decades ago a book would cost the equivalent of two weeks of labor that is a remarkable improvement in affordability thanks to machinery replacing the old style wine press printing process.

[C19fan]

Men trying to prevent or reverse hair loss is as old as the species.

[C19fan]

The USS Brooklyn was one of the ships involved in trying to resupply Fort Sumter and she would see action in some of the biggest naval battles of the Civil War including the capture of New Orleans and Battle of Mobile Bay.