[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 – 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. 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 September thread

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Cooking of Men – 1-11
Monthly Record of Current Events – 12-15
Editor’s Table – 16-19
Editor’s Easy Chair – 19-23
Editor’s Drawer – 24-31
The Miseries of Mistresses – 32-33
Fashion for October – 34-35

[DiogenesLamp]

I notice it is published in New York.

[ConservativeMind]

Homer (and, apparently, Lisa), your work is always fascinating.

[SkyPilot]

Great stuff Homer.

Some 19th prose is just beautiful.

Like Major Sullivan Ballou's "Dear Sarah" letter.

I have to admit, the writing in this magazine is very hard to follow. Not only is it filled with passive voice, run on sentences on top of run ons, but it is also very disjointed.

It must have been the style back then.

[Robert DeLong]

So all men are just a product of their climate. Too many words expended to make the point, in my opinion, but yes, that is the case.

[M Kehoe]

Some of the writing is quite eloquent.

Lot to digest.

Was that a discussion about the federal government’s budget?

Nah, couldn’t be. Too few expense categories, to few zeroes in the numbers.

5.56mm

[Tax-chick]

I like the dress-as-playpen on Page 26 of Harpers. However, fond as I am of historical costume in general, the mid-19th century was really obnoxious, right up there with panniers and shepherdess outfits in the late 18th.

Give me 1812 or 1910, or the lovely traditional gowns of Korea.