John Brown Titles: the good books about John Brown in recent scholarship
David S. Reynolds
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Louis A. DeCaro, Jr.
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| descendants of the Women Abolitionists of Santa Clara County, now known as Silicon Valley. JOHN BROWN'S FAMILY IN CALIFORNIA NEW SEPTEMBER 2006 by Jean Libby, April Halberstadt, Eric Ledell Smith, John M. Lawlor, Louis A. DeCaro, Jr. $11.80 on Amazon |
| Research on the events of John Brown's revolutionary movement, and evidence of African leadership and connectivity. Jean Libby, editor and compiler with eight authors "Allies for Freedom." a nonprofit publication cover art by Jimica Akinloye Kenyatta $11.95 |
| Honors thesis in African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley by Jean Libby, 1986. Shown on university cable TV $29 DVD " "Rebirth" by Malaquias Montoya in Oakland, California. Mural is no longer extant except in the DVD |
Who told John Brown that Harpers Ferry was "the perfect steel trap" in 1859? Frederick Douglass Was he right? See for yourself as Bob O'Connor takes you on a fictional journey, based on facts, asking the participants in the raid on both sides to write letters of their experiences. Both sides of the Potomac River recommend it! Living History 2006 finalist USA Book News order from Bob |
Louis A. DeCaro knows the people, feels the pain of enslavement, and honors the militant action of John Brown and his band of young followers. New York University Press, 2002. $23 |
Two young Harvard professors,
Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John
Stauffer, set out to "reconsider the
history of American abolitionism" by
asking up-and-coming scholars to
write and to help each other.
The result is noted by Eric Foner to
"change our understanding not only
of American abolitionism, but of
American Society itself."
The New Press
Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John
Stauffer, set out to "reconsider the
history of American abolitionism" by
asking up-and-coming scholars to
write and to help each other.
The result is noted by Eric Foner to
"change our understanding not only
of American abolitionism, but of
American Society itself."
The New Press
| William Loren Katz has revised his classic first published in 1971 to include two chapters on John Brown |
Franny Nudelman, an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia, narrates heated conflicts over the political significance of the dead. She argues that responses to wartime death cannot be fully understood without attention to the brutality directed against African Americans during the antebellum era. $16.95 University of North Carolina Press, 2004 |
| Inspired by a conversation William Loren Katz had with Langston Hughes, The Black West presents long-neglected stories of daring pioneers such as Nat Love a.k.a. Deadwood Dick, Mary Fields a.k.a. Stagecoach Mary, Cranford Golds by a.k.a. Cherokee Bill—and a host of other intrepid men and women who marched into the wilderness alongside Chief Osceola, Billy the Kid and Geronimo. |
| "Great God Almighty! It's Old John Brown!" Sword of the Spirit, an audio CD by Magpie (Greg Artzner and Terry Leonino) that commemorates and celebrates the raid on Harpers Ferry, October 16, 1859. CD includes "Mary Brown, Abolitionist" by Peggy Eyres. |
| Terrible Swift Sword; the Legacy of John Brown a collection of essays from the first Conference on John Brown at Penn State Montalto in 1996. edited by Peggy Russo and Paul Finkelman. Ohio University Press, 2005 $25 AMAZON |
FREE download LIST (pdf) Delegates to the Chatham Convention in May 1858 from John Brown Mysteries |
The John Brown
Portrait
Chronology
by Jean Libby
(free download.
no images)
An early daguerreotype of
John Brown has just
resurfaced
The John Brown portrait
chronology with images first
established the similarity of
two portraits by the African
American photographer
Augustus Washington in
1846 and 1847.
John Brown has just
resurfaced
The John Brown portrait
chronology with images first
established the similarity of
two portraits by the African
American photographer
Augustus Washington in
1846 and 1847.
Stan Cohen, owner of Pictorial Histories Publishing in Missoula, Montana author of John Brown, the Thundering Voice of Jehovah at the Kennedy Farm in Maryland in May, 2000 |