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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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[arthurus]

The Democrats will not disintegrate as a Party. They may fall into internecine scrambling for power and the main contenders may well engage in a bloody fight that involves some suicides and heart attacks and defenestrations but that will come later in the process of consolidating total control.