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John Brown: The Legend Revisited
Suggested Readings
Abels, Jules. Man on Fire: John Brown and the Cause of Liberty . New York , 1971.
Bradford, Gamaliel. Damaged Souls . Boston , 1923.
Cheek, William and Aimee Lee Cheek. John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65 . Urbana , 1989.
Chowder, Ken. "Father of American Terrorism," American Heritage 33 (2000): 81-91.
Courtwright, Julie, "'A Goblin That Drives Her Insane': Sara Robinson and the History Wars of Kansas, 1894-1911," Kansas History 25, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 102-22.
Dana Jr., Richard Henry. "How We Met John Brown," Atlantic Monthly 28 (1871): 1-9.
Du Bois, W. E. B. John Brown (1909), ed. David Smith ( London , 1997).
Graham, Stephen. The Soul of John Brown . New York , 1920.
Hinton, Richard J. John Brown and His Men (New York, 1894).
John Brown's Holy War . PBS Home Video, 2000.
Kendall, M. Sue. Rethinking Regionalism: John Stewart Curry and the Kansas Mural Controversy (Washington, D.C., 1986).
Loewens, James W. Lies My Teachers Told Me (New York, 1955), pp.165-93.
Malin, James C. "John Brown and the Legend of Fifty-six," Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 17 ( Philadelphia , 1942),
—. "The Legend of John Brown in Pictures: Kissing the Negro Baby, " Kansas Historical Quarterly 8 (1939): 339-46.
Monroe, James. Oberlin Thursday Lectures: Addresses and Essays . Oberlin, 1897.
Oates, Stephen B. To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown (Amherst, Mass., 1984).
—. "John Brown and His Judges: A Critique of the Historical Literature," Beyond the Civil War Synthesis: Political Essays on the Civil War Era , ed. Robert P. Sieringa (Westport, Conn., 1975). .
Phillips, William A. "Three Interviews with Old John Brown," Atlantic Monthly 28 (1879): 738-44.
Quarles, Benjamin. Allies for Freedom: Blacks and John Brown (New York, 1974).
Redpath, James. The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-Biography of His Childhood and Youth ( Boston , 1860).
Ruchames, Louis, ed. John Brown: The Making of a Revolutionary (New York, 1969).
Utter, David N. "John Brown of Osawatomie," North American Review 137 (1883): 435-46.
Villard, Osawald Garrison. John Brown, 1800-1859 (Gloucester, Mass., 1965).
—. John Brown: A Biography Fifty Years After ( Boston , 1910).
Weld, Theodore. American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839.
Wilson, Dan W. Governor Charles Robinson of Kansas (Lawrence, Kans., 1975), chaps. 5 and 6.
Wilson, Hill Peebles. John Brown, Soldier of Fortune: A Critique ( Lawrence , Kans. , 1913).
Woodward, C. Vann. "John Brown's Private War," America in Crisis: Fourteen Crucial Episodes in American History , ed. Daniel Aaron (New York, 1952), pp. 109-32.
Websites
John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Database
Photos of John Brown and his family. Contemporary artists' renderings of the 1859 Harpers Ferry raid and Brown's trial. More than 100 of Brown's letters and manuscripts.
John Brown's Holy War
Background on Brown and Harpers Ferry raid; teacher's guide; maps; people and events associated with Brown, including the Pottawatomie Massacre.