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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.

Posting history, in reverse order

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Rev. J.W. Cummings, D.D. – 2-4
A Frost Song – 4
Editorials – 4-5
The Lounger – 5-7
Employment of Women-Article III – 8-10
The Knight’s Leap at Altenahr – 10
The Pope’s Railway Car – 11-13
Literary – 12, 14
Notes on Cuba – 15-20
The Murderous Ischvostchik: A Story of the Czar Nicholas – 21-23
A Little Story – 23
Esther – 23-24
Arrest of the Members of the Irish Phenix Society – 25
Strange Religious Ceremony at Monaco – 26-27
Dancing Bears in India – 26-27
Concerning a Bird – 27-29
Our Special Paris Correspondence – 29-30
Chess Chronicle – 30
Things Wise and Otherwise – 30
Adventures of Mr. Grouty and His Nephew at the Auction Sale of Unclaimed Baggage at Albany – 31

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Continued from January 8 (reply #3) .

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

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[Continued from January 28 (reply #18.)]

January 31. The illustrious Prescott died suddenly at Boston. I shall not miss the highly respectable volumes of Philip the Second that perish unborn. I am tired of history in dress coat and patent-leather pumps, Clio in hoops and powder.

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

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, February 1859

WORCESTER, February, 1859

George [William] Curtis lectured here last week. With the most delicious elocution we have — except perhaps Wendell Phillips's — and a fascinating rhetoric and an uncorrupted moral integrity, he showed yet a want of intellectual vigor and training which will always prevent him from being a great man. Yet he perfectly fascinated everybody.

SOURCE: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, Editor, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, p. 72

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Wikipedia page

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[Continued from January 31 (reply #4).]

February 1. Newspapers still busy with predictions of European war; France and Austria to fight for Italy. Doubtful. Neither can afford the luxury.

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