Harper’s Weekly – July 21, 1860

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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

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

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Continued from June 26 (reply #7).

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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]

“Informing a Jewish friend . . .” from the penultimate paragraph of the excerpt from “Team of Rivals” above refers to the letter to Abraham Jonas in the following reply.

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Continued from July 21 (reply #4.)

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

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Continued from July 19 (reply #8.)

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

[Jim W N]

...a friend indeed...

[Tax-chick]

How up-to-date Mr. Strong seems!

[colorado tanker]

If Ruskin was discouraged in 1860, I wonder what he would think about 20th Century art?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 22 (reply #8.)

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

The following is from today’s (July 25) New York Times classified section. I predict this play will get a big jolt of publicity about five years from now. – HJS.

[the OlLine Rebel]

That is so cool.

[Tax-chick]

A typical example of the English treating Americans like rustic hayseeds ... just as they did with their own rural countrymen.

And just as the ancient Greeks did with their rural countrymen. It’s a relief, in some ways, to realize that people are always the same.

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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