[Homer_J_Simpson]

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Cattle Disease – 1-4
Editorials – 4
The Lounger – 4-5
Humors of the Day – 6
Patchen – 6-7
Flora Temple – 6, 8
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, Walter Hartright’s Narrative Continued – 6, 9-11
Literary – 11
Domestic Intelligence – 11
Foreign News – 11-12
The Review of the Seventh Regiment – 12-13
Peeps into the Harem – 12, 14
Village Roses and Thorns – 14-17
Once Upon a Time – 17, 19
The Putnam Phalanx at the Grave of Putnam – 18-19
Captain Brand of the Schooner “Centipede,” by Lieut. Henry A. Wise, U.S.N. (Harry Gringo). Chapter XXXVI-XXXVII – 19-21
“Come Forward and Be Whipped!” – 21
Kidnapping – 22

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from June 26 (reply #7).

1

2

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 4 (reply #6.)

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

[C19fan]

Muslims slaughtering Christians in Syria.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 19 (reply #8.)

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 19 (reply #7)

To Miss or Mrs. Ives, Springfield, 27 July 1860

Enclosed please find Mr. Lincoln’s autograph which you request

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