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Of the day following John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859 — now understood by scholars and schoolchildren alike to be one of the precipitating events of the Civil ...
John Brown Farm State Historic Site is hosting a lecture by historian and author Sandra Weber on Sunday, Dec. 7 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the site’s visitor center. This presentation is free and open to ...
The life of John Brown will be recalled at a symposium on Saturday in Springfield, the city where the abolitionist once lived. “If any one man ignited the American Civil War, it was abolitionist John ...
John Brown's violent campaign against slavery — punctuated by the dramatic 1859 raid at Harper's Ferry, Va. — made him a divisive figure, then and now. A new biography by David Reynolds examines the ...
"John Brown, Abolitionist" by David Reynolds, Alfred A. Knopf, 578 pages, $35 An early chapter in this magisterial biography of the l9th century abolitionist John Brown begins: "Few successful people ...
JOHN BROWN, ABOLITIONIST: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. By David S. Reynolds. Knopf, 554 pp. $30. A hero to many, a villain to others, John Brown and his ...
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The Showtime mini-series is the latest work to take up the question of whether the 19th-century abolitionist was a martyr or a madman. The answers tend to break along racial lines. By Salamishah ...
JOHN BROWN, ABOLITIONIST: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
In the very first paragraphs of this biography, Bancroft Prize–winner Reynolds (Walt Whitman's America) steps back a bit from the grandiose claims of his subtitle. Nevertheless, his book as a whole ...
Of the day following John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859 — now understood by scholars and schoolchildren alike to be one of the precipitating events of the Civil ...
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