Ahhh - finished my third book chapter. It began with the Carrington Event (geomagnetic storm in late August 1859), which literally fried the telegraph lines, to Harpers Ferry, which lit them on fire again.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
1860 Presidential election - "Electing Civil War" - about the relationship between constitutional democracy and civil war between August 1859 and July 1861. Looking at four different communities from the ground up: Burlington, VT; Cincinnati; Clarksville, TN; Madison County, MS.
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