![secession(1)](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/secession(1).jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
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: May 2025.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.
Posting history, in reverse order
https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:homerjsimpson/index?tab=articles 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
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-23 next last
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Jan the Hawker – 1
Editorials – 1, 3
Saint Valentine Day – 2
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4-5
Fort Sumter – 5-7
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Ch XVIII – 6, 8-9
Domestic Intelligence – 9-10
Foreign News – 10-11
Paris Fashions for February – 12
“Bring Me a Light”-A Ghost Story – 13-16
A Valentine Romance of ye Olden Time – 17-18
Gov. Hicks, of Maryland – 19
Joseph Holt, Secretary of War – 19-21
The New Orleans Customhouse, Mint, Etc. – 20-21
A Day’s Ride: A Life’s Romance, By Charles Lever, Ch XXXVII – 21-22
Snake Stories – 22-23
Serious Accident – 23
2 posted on
02/16/2021 6:58:48 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Two excerpts from Catton today. The first one is continued from February 9 (reply #3).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#3
![0216_tcfa](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0216_tcfa.jpg)
The next one is continued from February 13 (reply #23).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#23
![0216_tcfb](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0216_tcfb.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
![0216_tcfc](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0216_tcfc.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury
3 posted on
02/16/2021 7:02:12 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
![photo index_zpscsdbeoa0.jpg](http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/Lisa_Simpson/1856/July/index_zpscsdbeoa0.jpg)
Continued from February 11 (reply #16).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#16
![0216_jda](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0216_jda.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American
4 posted on
02/16/2021 7:04:19 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
5 posted on
02/16/2021 7:05:49 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
![photo jgn_zpsiixn3ri5.jpg](https://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/Lisa_Simpson/1860/May/Excerpts/jgn_zpsiixn3ri5.jpg)
![0217_jgn](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0217_jgn.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame
6 posted on
02/17/2021 6:44:29 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Two excerpts from Catton today. The first one is continued from February 12 (reply #18).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#18
![0218_tcfa](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0218_tcfa.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
The next one is out of sequence. Not a continuation.
1![0218_tcfb](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0218_tcfb.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
2
![0218_tcfc](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0218_tcfc.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
3
![0218_tcfd](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0218_tcfd.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
4
![0218_tcfe](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0218_tcfe.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury
9 posted on
02/18/2021 6:50:02 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
![0218_sf1](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0218_sf1.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
Shelby Foote, The Civil War Narrative, Volume One, Fort Sumter to Perryville
10 posted on
02/18/2021 6:51:19 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
![photo lincoln_zps5i3xc42f.jpg](http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/Lisa_Simpson/1855/lincoln_zps5i3xc42f.jpg)
Continued from February 11 (reply #13).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#13
![0218_linc](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0218_linc.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln
11 posted on
02/18/2021 6:52:50 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
![0218_lincolnletter](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0218_lincolnletter.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
12 posted on
02/18/2021 6:54:34 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
![0218_gts](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0218_gts.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
14 posted on
02/18/2021 6:57:32 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
15 posted on
02/18/2021 6:58:28 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Big posting day, as Jefferson Davis inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America.
Two from Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury, reply #9
Shelby Foote, #10
David Donald's Lincoln, #11
Two whistle stop speeches by Lincoln, #12
William Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American, #13
George Templeton Strong, #14
Davis's inauguration speech and a letter from Maj. Thomas Jackson to Mrs. Jackson, #15
16 posted on
02/18/2021 7:06:01 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
![mary_boykin_chesnut](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/mary_boykin_chesnut.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
![0219_mbc](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0219_mbc.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
Mary Chesnut’s Diary, Edited by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary
19 posted on
02/19/2021 7:39:46 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
20 posted on
02/19/2021 7:40:38 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
" . . . not so ugly as his portraits.”
I don't see a cult of personality developing just yes.
![0220_gts](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0220_gts.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
22 posted on
02/20/2021 7:34:29 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
![photo team of rivals_zpsxwaby5be.jpg](http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/Lisa_Simpson/1856/June/team%20of%20rivals_zpsxwaby5be.jpg)
Continued from February 13 (reply #X).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#24
![0221_tr](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0221_tr.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
23 posted on
02/21/2021 7:25:56 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
1![0221_lincolnlettera](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0221_lincolnlettera.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
2
![0221_lincolnletterb](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0221_lincolnletterb.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
24 posted on
02/21/2021 7:28:01 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
![0221_gts](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0221_gts.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
25 posted on
02/21/2021 7:30:02 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Continued from February 18 (reply #9, part 1).
1
![0222_tcfa](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0222_tcfa.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
2
![0222_tcfb](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0222_tcfb.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
3
![0222_tcfc](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0222_tcfc.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury
26 posted on
02/22/2021 5:15:39 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
![0222_lincolnletter](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f167/Lisa_Simpson/0222_lincolnletter.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
28 posted on
02/22/2021 5:17:57 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-23 next last
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson