Harper’s Weekly – March 2, 1861

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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: 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/3937001/posts

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Mr. Lincoln at the Astor House – 1-2
Editorials – 1, 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4-5
The South Carolina Batteries – 5-7
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Ch XXI – 5, 8-9
Domestic Intelligence – 9-11
Foreign News – 11
The Dreamer at Moultrie – 11-12
My Aunt Marcia – 11, 13-14
Snake Stories – 14-15
Fort Taylor, Key West – 15-16
A Life Story – 15
The Mazed Fiddler – 15, 17-18
A Day’s Ride: A Life’s Romance, By Charles Lever, Ch XXXIX – 18-20
Our Presidential Merryman – 20
No Communion with Slaveholders – 21

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Continued from March 1 (reply #33).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3937001/posts#33

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from February 23 (reply #5).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3937001/posts#5

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David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Continued from February 22 (reply #29)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3935007/posts#29

James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life

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

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Mary Chesnut’s Diary, Edited by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary

[M Kehoe]

Hi Professor.

panegyric

I had to look it up.

5.56mm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Don’t you get tired of those 19th century smarty pants with their fancy vocabularies? Bunch of show-offs, if you ask me.

[M Kehoe]

LOL.

5.56mm

[colorado tanker]

Mary Chestnut’s writing reflects a deep sense of foreboding. She has good instincts.

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Continued from February 25 (reply #16).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3937001/posts#16

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Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

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Continued March 2 (reply #3).

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from March 2 (reply #4).

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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

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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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Mary Chesnut’s Diary, Edited by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary

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David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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

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Major-General John A. Dix to Major Robert Anderson
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/major-general-john-dix-to-major-robert.html

Wilder Dwight to William Dwight, March 4, 1861
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/wilder-dwight-to-william-dwight-march-4.html