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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

To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.

Link to previous Harper’s Weekly thread

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Beginning with the May 26 edition and continuing through the June 30 edition there was a problem with the original copies from which the pdf files were created. There was apparently water damage along the spines of the magazines so there are blank spots on the bottom corners of each page, which translates in to blank spots on every page or so of my recreated magazine. I have omitted a few articles that have serious gaps in them. I have included the serials that some readers may be following even when there are gaps. The June 30 issue is the worst and the problem appears to end there. I will add a notice if it starts again.

The ”Derby Day” – 1-3, 7
The June Month – 2
Editorials – 3-4
The Lounger – 4-5
Humors of the Day – 6
“Tommy” – 8
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, Walter Hartright’s Narrative Continued – 8-11
Domestic Intelligence – 11-12
Foreign News – 12-13
The Great Tornado – 14-18
The New Pygmalion – 18-19
The Broken Merchant – 19-20
Captain Brand of the Schooner “Centipede,” by Lieut. Henry A. Wise, U.S.N. (Harry Gringo). Chapter XXII-XXIV – 21, 23-25
The Japanese Embassy and Their Attendants - 22

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Continued from May 20 (reply #18).

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from April 23 (reply #16) .

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

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Continued from June 21 (reply #18.)

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

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Vice President John C. Breckinridge to Daniel S. Dickinson, June 29, 1860

WASHINGTON CITY, June 29, 1860.

MY DEAR SIR — I beg you to accept my cordial thanks for your friendly letter of the 27th inst. This nomination, as you may perhaps know, was neither sought nor desired by me. I would have much preferred many other gentlemen in both sections of the Union. Your own name, would have been eminently acceptable to my State, whose people have long admired your personal and public character, while I could have supported you all the more cordially, from the pleasant intercourse we had in 1850. But the issue is made, and I must accept the position in which I find myself.

With good wishes and high regard, I am

Yours truly,

JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE.

SOURCE: John R. Dickinson, editor, Speeches, correspondence, etc., of the late Daniel S. Dickinson of New York, Vol. 2, p. 535

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