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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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Contents – 2
The Atlantic Telegraph – 2-4
Editorials – 4-6
The Lounger – 6-7
The Attack on the Pei-ho Forts, in China – 8-9
Victoria, Vancouver’s Island – 10
The Great Cricket Match at Hoboken – 11-12
My First-Born – 11
The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition Illustration – 13-14
Pet Worms – 15
Down at the Grange – 15-18
Dream-Spinning – 18
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell – 18-19
Little Good-For-Nothing – 19-20
Robbery – Old and New Style – 21
Female Employment-No. 1 – 22-23
Miscellany – 23-24

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from August 5 (reply #10) .

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

[Tuketu]

Love those old “Wood Block” Prints. Have on of the Statue of Liberty construction on my wall.

[Tax-chick]

I’m confused by the left-hand picture on page 25. I don’t see what’s wrong with “the lovely Miss Smith of Louisiana,” except that she appears to be levitating, rather than walking, up the stairs. Is the gentleman’s objection that she’s a ghost?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 6 (reply #6) . Davis’s letter to the Jackson Mississippian described in second paragraphed was published on this date.

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

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Continued from July 29 (reply #9, first excerpt).

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

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Continued from August 12 (reply #14).

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