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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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Senator Hale, of New Hampshire * – 2-4
Contents – 3
Editorials – 4-5
The Lounger – 5-7
Travel Notes in Bible Lands – 7-9
The Island Prison of the King of Delhi – 10-12
The War in Utah – 12-15
Ten Minutes in a Fyke Fence – 16-17
An Old Maid’s Retrospections – 17-18
Miscellany – 18-19
A Marriage Remembrance – 19
Three Weeks with the Stock-Gamblers – 19-23
Personal Anecdotes of the Late Thomas H Benton – 24-25
The Last Hours of the State Legislature – 26

* John P. Hale Wikipedia page

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[Continued from April 23 (reply #12). ]

April 24, Philharmonic concert tonight with Ellie: Mendelssohn’s A-minor Symphony, a “scherzo and finale” in E by Schumann, and Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture. This last gains on Better acquaintance. . . .

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

Mendelssohn Symphony #3 in A minor (“Scottish”)

Wagner Tannhäuser Overture

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Continued from March 24 (reply #6) .

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

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Continued from November 11, 1857 (Reply #24)

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Continued from April 21 (reply #6).

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Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era

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Continued from April 1 (reply #4).

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American