Posted on 08/28/2018 4:56:18 AM PDT by 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, Harpers 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.
Continued from August 27 (reply #22).
Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America
From C-Span in 1994, the Freeport debate re-enactment:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?59821-1/lincoln-douglas-freeport-debate
https://www.c-span.org/series/?LincolnDouglas
August 29,SUNDAY. Its down in the programme of next Wednesdays grand celebration, it seems, that the mayor, and the civic Di Majores generally, attend service at Trinity Church. Hodges tells me he has got together a choir of thirty. The music is mostly his own. A sort of temporary rood-screen has been erected under the chancel arch, which is to be covered with flowers.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
The church decor sounds lovely. I hope they get a break in the temperatures before the yellow fever gets too widespread. They call it “Bronze John” in New Orleans, because it’s kind of a jinx to say “yellow fever.”
I tweeted a link to this post and the Aug 29 post to current day Trinity Church (@TrinityWallSt) and they kindly responded by posting an article from their online newsletter from a few years ago.
https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/blogs/archivists-mailbag/consecrated-lightening
Thanks. That picture really makes the descriptions come alive.
Continued from May 19 (reply #16) .
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
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