John Brown Titles: the good John Brown Harpers Ferry Raid books
David S. Reynolds
New and recommended
Louis A. DeCaro, Jr.
Review by Jean Libby
Review by Jean Libby
| descendants of the Women Abolitionists of Santa Clara County, now known as Silicon Valley. JOHN BROWN'S FAMILY IN CALIFORNIA by Jean Libby, April Halberstadt, Eric Ledell Smith, John M. Lawlor, Louis A. DeCaro, Jr. |
| 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 John Brown Mysteries |
new novel by a Harpers Ferry native who examines family relations with a John Brown mystery tale. Just released! April 2009 "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 |
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. |
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
Prophets of Protest
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
Prophets of Protest
John Brown's Body by 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. 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 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. Mean to Be Free; John Brown's Black Nation Campaign Honors thesis in African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley by Jean Libby, Shown on university cable TV DVD 2004 |
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| Come to Harpers Ferry in 2009 -- Events to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the John Brown Raid |
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| Essential reference work by Tom Calarco, for ABC People of the Underground Railroad: a biographical dictionary. John Brown chapter is helpful for anyone who is researching and writing. Recommend it to your school or public library! |
