hominidmedia: people: john brown
media introduction:
image credit: "John Brown (before acquisition of beard which typifies him as the stormy prophet of emancipation). Copy of daguerrotype, circa 1850." National Archives Identifier: 532587. Hosted by [archives.gov].
Black and Bachelder. "John Brown." Library of Congress, 1859.This photograph has multiple National Archives Local Identifier #s: 111-BA-1101 (referenced in Finkleman >[archives.gov]) and 64-NA-3460 (as "Photograph of States of the Union Exhibit"). One digital copy is hosted by Mintz, S., & McNeil, S . Digital History. Houston: University of Houston, 2018. [digitalhistory.uh.edu]. Oates includes a "Mosaic" of early brown images in To Purge This Land.... The "earliest known" from 1846 to a daguerreotype from 1858. This is Brown's pre-beard period. For more on this niche see: [Facial Hair Fridays] hosted at by the National Archives.
John Steuart Curry. The Tragic Prelude. from the State Capitol in Topeka, Kansas, c. 1937-42. National Archives id#: 520060. Hosted by [archives.gov].
James E. Greanleaf, C.S. Hall, C.B. Marsh, William Weston Patton and others. "John Brown's Body" American Folk Song, 1856.
Abolitionists borrowed the tune from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (just like Ralph Chaplin and the socialists would do with "Solidarity Forever.") Pete Seeger's version, hosted by [.youtube].
James McBride, Ethan Hawke and Mark Richard. The Good Lord Bird. USA: Blumhouse Television, 4 October 2020. Trailer hosted by [.youtube].HBO miniseries based on the 2013 [National Book Award] winner by James McBride.
standard narrative:
James D. McCabe. The Pictorial History of the World... Philadelphia: The National Publishing Co., 1878. 1165-1166.
McCabe on Brown:
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Arthur Donald Innes. "The History of the World" The Outline of Knowledge vol XX. New York: James A. Richards. 1927. 48-50.
Innes on Brown:
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Carl N. Degler. Out of Our Past: The Forces that Shaped Modern America. New York and Evanston: Harper Colophon, 1962. (First Published: 1959). 181, 185.
Degler on Brown:
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Samuel Eliot Morison. The Oxford History of The American People. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. (Second printing). 520-521, 591-592, 601-2, 605, 609.
Morison on Brown:
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Oscar Handlin. America: A History. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. 469-472, 476, 478, 499.
Handlin on Brown:
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Dee Brown. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Reinhart, Winston, 1970. 9, 70-71, 179-180.
Brown on Brown:
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Stephen B. Oates. To Purge this Land with Blood New York: Harper & Row, 1977. (First published, 1970).
Oates on Brown:
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Calvin D. Linton (ed). The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America. Nashville and New York: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1975. (Second Printing) 140-142, 144, 146, 148-150, 152, 154-156.
Linton's chronology:
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Howard Zinn. A Peoples History Of The United States. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005. (First Published: 1980). 171, 185-187.
Zinn on Brown:
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Louis Filler. Crusade Against Slavery: Friends, Foes and Reforms, 1820-1860. Algonac (MI): Reference Publications, 1986.
Edwin P. Hoyt. Amerca's Wars and Military Excursions New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1987. 250.
Hoyt on Brown:
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Louis Filler. "Brown, John" The World Book Encyclopedia USA: World Book Inc., 1988.
Filler in World Book:
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James West Davidson, William E. Gienapp, Christine Leigh Heyrman, Mark H. Lytle, Michael B. Stoff. Nation of Nations: A Consise Narrative of the American Republic. New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1996. 376, 395, 516. (First printing, 1990).
Faragher, John Mack; Mary Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, Susan H. Armitage. Out of Many: A History of the American People. brief 4th ed. New Jersey: Pearson, 2004. 287, 289-90. (First Published: 1995).
Phillip Jenkins. A History of the United States. Second edition. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 110, 133-134. (First published, 1997).
Paul Johnson. A History of the American People Great Britain: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997. 429, 448-9, 479.
David S. Reynolds. John Brown: Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights New York: Knopf, 2005. ix, x. 502.
Reynolds on Brown:
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James West Davidson and Christine Leigh Heyrman. US: A Narrative History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 355.
Davidson and Heyrman on Brown:
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Paul Finkleman. "A Look Back at John Brown" Prologue Magazine Spring 2011, Vol. 43, No. 1 [archives.gov].
Finkleman on Brown:
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Susan-Mary Grant. A Concise History of the United States of America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 169-171, 191, 264-266.
Grant on Brown:
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James West Davidson. A Little History of the United States. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 153-155.
Davidson on Brown:
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Jeffrey Ostler. Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Print. 354, 355.
Bleeding Kansas as a political battle between northern settlers and southern border ruffians is only made possible by the depopulation of Kanza territory by disease and war. Bleeding Kansas is the result of failed Indian policy (or successful Indian eradication).
Wesley Morris. "Music." from Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ileana Silverman and Jake Silverstein (ed). The 1619 Project New York: One World, 2021. 366-367.
Morris on Brown:
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primary sources:
John Brown "Last Speech" Testimonies of Capt. John Brown, at Harper's Ferry, with his address to the court. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860. [archive.org]
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Franklin Benjamin Sandborn (ed). The Life and Letters of John Brown: Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. [archive.org]. Sandborn was one of the Secret Six (who provided funding for the Harper's Ferry raid).
Univ. of Hou. "John Brown: In His Own Words." [Univ. of Houston]. Primary source archive including photographs.
image credit: "John Brown (before acquisition of beard which typifies him as the stormy prophet of emancipation). Copy of daguerrotype, circa 1850." National Archives Identifier: 532587. Hosted by [archives.gov].
Black and Bachelder. "John Brown." Library of Congress, 1859.This photograph has multiple National Archives Local Identifier #s: 111-BA-1101 (referenced in Finkleman >[archives.gov]) and 64-NA-3460 (as "Photograph of States of the Union Exhibit"). One digital copy is hosted by Mintz, S., & McNeil, S . Digital History. Houston: University of Houston, 2018. [digitalhistory.uh.edu]. Oates includes a "Mosaic" of early brown images in To Purge This Land.... The "earliest known" from 1846 to a daguerreotype from 1858. This is Brown's pre-beard period. For more on this niche see: [Facial Hair Fridays] hosted at by the National Archives.
John Steuart Curry. The Tragic Prelude. from the State Capitol in Topeka, Kansas, c. 1937-42. National Archives id#: 520060. Hosted by [archives.gov].
James E. Greanleaf, C.S. Hall, C.B. Marsh, William Weston Patton and others. "John Brown's Body" American Folk Song, 1856.
Abolitionists borrowed the tune from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (just like Ralph Chaplin and the socialists would do with "Solidarity Forever.") Pete Seeger's version, hosted by [.youtube].
James McBride, Ethan Hawke and Mark Richard. The Good Lord Bird. USA: Blumhouse Television, 4 October 2020. Trailer hosted by [.youtube].HBO miniseries based on the 2013 [National Book Award] winner by James McBride.
standard narrative:
James D. McCabe. The Pictorial History of the World... Philadelphia: The National Publishing Co., 1878. 1165-1166.
McCabe on Brown:
[load text]
Arthur Donald Innes. "The History of the World" The Outline of Knowledge vol XX. New York: James A. Richards. 1927. 48-50.
Innes on Brown:
[load text]
Carl N. Degler. Out of Our Past: The Forces that Shaped Modern America. New York and Evanston: Harper Colophon, 1962. (First Published: 1959). 181, 185.
Degler on Brown:
[load text]
Samuel Eliot Morison. The Oxford History of The American People. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. (Second printing). 520-521, 591-592, 601-2, 605, 609.
Morison on Brown:
[load text]
Oscar Handlin. America: A History. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. 469-472, 476, 478, 499.
Handlin on Brown:
[load text]
Dee Brown. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Reinhart, Winston, 1970. 9, 70-71, 179-180.
Brown on Brown:
[load text]
Stephen B. Oates. To Purge this Land with Blood New York: Harper & Row, 1977. (First published, 1970).
Oates on Brown:
[load text]
Calvin D. Linton (ed). The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America. Nashville and New York: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1975. (Second Printing) 140-142, 144, 146, 148-150, 152, 154-156.
Linton's chronology:
[load text]
Howard Zinn. A Peoples History Of The United States. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005. (First Published: 1980). 171, 185-187.
Zinn on Brown:
[load text]
Louis Filler. Crusade Against Slavery: Friends, Foes and Reforms, 1820-1860. Algonac (MI): Reference Publications, 1986.
Edwin P. Hoyt. Amerca's Wars and Military Excursions New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1987. 250.
Hoyt on Brown:
[load text]
Louis Filler. "Brown, John" The World Book Encyclopedia USA: World Book Inc., 1988.
Filler in World Book:
[load text]
James West Davidson, William E. Gienapp, Christine Leigh Heyrman, Mark H. Lytle, Michael B. Stoff. Nation of Nations: A Consise Narrative of the American Republic. New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1996. 376, 395, 516. (First printing, 1990).
Faragher, John Mack; Mary Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, Susan H. Armitage. Out of Many: A History of the American People. brief 4th ed. New Jersey: Pearson, 2004. 287, 289-90. (First Published: 1995).
Phillip Jenkins. A History of the United States. Second edition. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 110, 133-134. (First published, 1997).
Paul Johnson. A History of the American People Great Britain: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997. 429, 448-9, 479.
David S. Reynolds. John Brown: Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights New York: Knopf, 2005. ix, x. 502.
Reynolds on Brown:
[load text]
James West Davidson and Christine Leigh Heyrman. US: A Narrative History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 355.
Davidson and Heyrman on Brown:
[load text]
Paul Finkleman. "A Look Back at John Brown" Prologue Magazine Spring 2011, Vol. 43, No. 1 [archives.gov].
Finkleman on Brown:
[load text]
Susan-Mary Grant. A Concise History of the United States of America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 169-171, 191, 264-266.
Grant on Brown:
[load text]
James West Davidson. A Little History of the United States. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 153-155.
Davidson on Brown:
[load text]
Jeffrey Ostler. Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Print. 354, 355.
Bleeding Kansas as a political battle between northern settlers and southern border ruffians is only made possible by the depopulation of Kanza territory by disease and war. Bleeding Kansas is the result of failed Indian policy (or successful Indian eradication).
Wesley Morris. "Music." from Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ileana Silverman and Jake Silverstein (ed). The 1619 Project New York: One World, 2021. 366-367.
Morris on Brown:
[load text]
primary sources:
John Brown "Last Speech" Testimonies of Capt. John Brown, at Harper's Ferry, with his address to the court. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860. [archive.org]
[load text]
Franklin Benjamin Sandborn (ed). The Life and Letters of John Brown: Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. [archive.org]. Sandborn was one of the Secret Six (who provided funding for the Harper's Ferry raid).
Univ. of Hou. "John Brown: In His Own Words." [Univ. of Houston]. Primary source archive including photographs.