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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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Eclipse of the Sun on the Eighteenth July – 1-3
Editorials – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4-5
The Salons of Paris – 5
The Seventh Regiment – 5-6
The London Fire-Escape – 7
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, Walter Hartright’s Narrative Continued – 7-10
Domestic Intelligence – 10
Foreign News – 10-11
Withered – 11
Kitty Dean’s Offer – 11, 14-15
The Fourth of July-Eighty Years Ago – 12
The Fourth of July-Nowadays – 13
The Lots Upon the Raft – 15-16
Captain Brand of the Schooner “Centipede,” by Lieut. Henry A. Wise, U.S.N. (Harry Gringo). Chapter XXXII-XXXV – 16, 18-20
Capture of Sbirro at Palermo – 17, 20
Unroofing of the Brooklyn Academy of Music – 18, 20
Her Bridal – 20
What May Be Expected After the Great Eastern – 21
The Cockney Tourist in America and His Shadow – 22
Complimentary to Paterfamilias – 22

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Continued from June 19 (reply #15)

To Therena Bates, Springfield, 16 July 1860

. . . The only thing really that I have to write to-day, is that I am going to start for Terre Haute, Indiana, to-night, to be gone two or three days. . . .

With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame

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Continued from July 10 (reply #7.)

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