[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
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.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

New Month, new thread. May is more eventful than those earlier in the year. I will continue with the Chicopee Mass. Weekly Journal and excerpts from the authors named above. Feel free to add items from other sources.

Link to April thread.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[EternalVigilance]

My Chandler forebears were in Fort Scott during this time period. Within the next year or so, four adult family members would be dead. I still don’t know how they died, but hope to trace it down at some point. It was a very violent place during this time period, but the whole territory was at times also swept by epidemics.

https://www.nps.gov/resources/story.htm?id=193

[rdl6989]

Lawrence, Kansas was sacked on May 21, 1856.

Here’s a little information I’ve found on it.

https://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-the-university-of-kansas-and-the-sack-of-lawrence/13191

[Squantos]

So grateful for your history lessons Homer ........ thank you.