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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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Without and Within – 1, 3
The Washington Tragedy – 2-4
Editorials – 4
The Lounger – 4-6
Chess Chronicle – 6
The New York Metropolitan Police – 7-9
The Paraguay Expedition – 10-12
Financial and Commercial – 12
Weekly Market Summary – 12
A Visit to the Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island – 13-20
The Leather Bag – 20-22
Our Special Paris Correspondence – 22-23
The Late Postmaster-General Brown – 23
“Eve Repentant” – 23-24
The Exchange at Buenos Ayres – 24-25
My Two Partners – 24, 26-27
The Weekly Farmer – 27-28
Trying, Very - 29

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Continued from March 15 (reply #6.)

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

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Continued from December 15, 1858 (reply #13.)

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Diary of John Brown, March 25, 1859

Wrote wife and children to write me, care of American House, Troy, N. Y. Enclosed draft for $150. J. H. Kagi, Dr.: To cash for Carpenter, five dollars. Clinton Gilroy, Esq., New London, Conn.

[Between the dates March 25 and June 18, Brown was at Peterboro' (April 11-14), at Concord (May 7-9), at Boston (May 9-June 3), and at North Elba (June 6-9).]

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 519

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