Wiki Sites and John Brown
Content
Summary by Douglas Linder
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/brownaccount.html
Famous Trial Site - www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/brownhome.html
Brown’s Provisional Constitution
www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/brownconstitution.html
The Secret Six
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/secretsixdetails.html
John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial, by John Brown, November 2, 1859
http://www.nationalcenter.org/JohnBrown%27sSpeech.html
Henry David Thoreau: A Plea for Captain John Brown, October 30, 1859 - (Concord, Mass.)
www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/thoreauplea.html
William Lloyd Garrison – “John Brown and the Principle of Nonresistance”, December 16, 1859
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=569
Mahala Doyle to John Brown, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 20 November 1859
(Wife of one of the Kansas victims)
http://ez15.ez-web-hosting.com/~gilderle/collection/docs_pdfs/T-7590.pdf
Scholars and Current Commentaries
David Blight – “John Brown: Triumphant Failure”, The American Prospect, November 30, 2002
http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=john_brown_triumphant_failure
Edward Rothstein. “One Man’s Crusade Against Slavery, Seen From Two Angles”, New York Times, October
27, 2009
www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/arts/design/28brown.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=rothstein%20+%20crusade&st=cse
Dennis Roddy. “John Brown’s legacy divides” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sunday, October 18, 2009
www.post-gazette.com/pg/09291/1006432-84.stm
5:15 Video – with Park Ranger/Historian Dennis Frye “John Brown’s Last Stand” – by Dennis Roddy
http://www.post-gazette.com/multimedia/?videoid=102452
6:50 video overview – “John Brown Reconsidered” by Dennis Roddy
http://www.post-gazette.com/multimedia/?videoid=102453
“Harpers Ferry looks back” - Sunday, October 18, 2009
By Daniel Malloy, Post-Gazette Washington Bureau
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09291/1006459-84.stm?cmpid=relatedarticle
Stephen B. Oates on John Brown
Video
Text Transcript
http://www.nps.gov/archive/hafe/jbrown/oates.htm
http://www.nps.gov/archive/hafe/jbrown/oates-text.htm#4
Tony Horwtiz, “The 9/11 of 1859”, December 2, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/opinion/02horwitz.html?scp=3&sq=&st=nyt
Letter to the Editor Evan Carton
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/opinion/l05brown.html?scp=1&sq=&st=nyt
David Reynolds, “Freedom’s Martyr” December 2, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/opinion/02reynolds.html?scp=2&sq=&st=nyt
Paul Finkelman v. Clayton Cramer: “Analogies: Was Timothy McVeigh Our John Brown?”
History News Network, July 6, 2001,
http://hnn.us/articles/139.html
R. B. Taylor, “From Pottawatomie Creek to the Oklahoma City Bombing of the Federal Building”
http://www.rbtaylor.net/johnbrown.htm - September 3, 1999
Book Reviews of Cloudsplitter by Russel Banks
“What Abolitionism Cost John Brown's Family”
by Michiko Kakutani, NY Times Tuesday, February 17, 1998
www.nytimes.com/1998/02/17/books/books-of-the-times-what-abolitionism-cost-john-brown-s-family.html?fta=y
“John Brown Lives Anew As a Writer's Inspiration” by Mel Gussow, NY Times, April 27, 1998
www.nytimes.com/1998/04/27/books/john-brown-lives-anew-as-a-writer-s-inspiration.html?fta=y&archive:article_related
Images
THE LAST MOMENTS OF JOHN BROWN, Thomas Hovenden
http://www.famsf.org/fam/education/publications/guide-american/slide-14.html
Slide show
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/10/27/arts/20091027_BROWN_SLIDESHOW_index.html
History of the Song
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/sfeature/song.html