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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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Link to previous New York Times thread

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This cannot be the New York Times. I did not see the words “Trump racist” anywhere. Also, nothing about women and minorities hardest hit.

[TBP]

There were two Democrat tickets, one headed by Vice President John C. Breckinridge, the other by Senator Steven Douglas. And there was the last remnant of the Whigs, called the Constitutional Union Party, led by a man named John Bell.

Lincoln won in that divided field.