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Some of these apply to more than this month in 1860:
1860 Census:
Newspapers:
New York Times:
Weekly Georgia Telegraph and others:
Dallas Herald (with a special thank you to Vicki Betts)
Long list of papers by state:
WVU Archives (newspapers and court papers, including John Brown's trial):
Magazines:
Harper's:
Godey's:
Atlantic Monthly at Project Gutenberg:
Magazines:
Harper's:
Godey's:
Atlantic Monthly at Project Gutenberg:
Miscellany:
Stratton House Inn Historical Files, Beautiful Belmont: this section deals with 1860:
Disasters and Politics of the Wheeling Bridge:
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Diaries of Ralph Leland Goodrich:
What Lincoln was doing:
The Pemberton Mill Disaster of January 10, 1860:
Henry Wilson's speech re the Territorial Slave Code:
Cassius M. Clay's speech:
Celebration of Thomas Paine:
Speech of Stephen A. Douglas:
Other Days: Recollections of rural England and old Virginia, 1860-1880
A pastor's trial on charges of being a bad example, among other things:
Visit of HRH the Prince of Wales to the US in 1860
Political Graveyard:
Riverboat catalog searchable by name and year (covers entire history of steamboats, so much postwar and prewar content):
Child, Lydia Maria Francis. The Patriarchal Institution...New York: The American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860.
1860 Census:
Newspapers:
New York Times:
Weekly Georgia Telegraph and others:
Dallas Herald (with a special thank you to Vicki Betts)
Long list of papers by state:
WVU Archives (newspapers and court papers, including John Brown's trial):
Magazines:
Harper's:
Godey's:
Atlantic Monthly at Project Gutenberg:
Magazines:
Harper's:
Godey's:
Atlantic Monthly at Project Gutenberg:
Miscellany:
Stratton House Inn Historical Files, Beautiful Belmont: this section deals with 1860:
Disasters and Politics of the Wheeling Bridge:
Diaries of Ralph Leland Goodrich:
What Lincoln was doing:
The Pemberton Mill Disaster of January 10, 1860:
Henry Wilson's speech re the Territorial Slave Code:
Cassius M. Clay's speech:
Celebration of Thomas Paine:
Speech of Stephen A. Douglas:
Other Days: Recollections of rural England and old Virginia, 1860-1880
A pastor's trial on charges of being a bad example, among other things:
Visit of HRH the Prince of Wales to the US in 1860
Political Graveyard:
Riverboat catalog searchable by name and year (covers entire history of steamboats, so much postwar and prewar content):
Child, Lydia Maria Francis. The Patriarchal Institution...New York: The American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860.
