Author: Anne Schraff
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766033559
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
"Examines the life of John Brown, including his childhood on the frontier, his fight against slavery and the Harpers Ferry raid, his execution, and legacy in American history"--Provided by publisher.
John Brown
Author: Anne Schraff
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766033559
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
"Examines the life of John Brown, including his childhood on the frontier, his fight against slavery and the Harpers Ferry raid, his execution, and legacy in American history"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766033559
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
"Examines the life of John Brown, including his childhood on the frontier, his fight against slavery and the Harpers Ferry raid, his execution, and legacy in American history"--Provided by publisher.
John Brown Still Lives!
Author: R. Blakeslee Gilpin
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807835013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
"Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, Blake Gilpin transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose of the American republic."--book jacket.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807835013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
"Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, Blake Gilpin transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose of the American republic."--book jacket.
John Brown's Spy
Author: Steven Lubet
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300182635
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
A “compulsively readable” account of the fugitive who betrayed John Brown after the bloody abolitionist raid on Harper’s Ferry (Booklist, starred review). John Brown’s Spy tells the nearly unknown story of John E. Cook, the person John Brown trusted most with the details of his plans to capture the Harper’s Ferry armory in 1859. Cook was a poet, a marksman, a boaster, a dandy, a fighter, and a womanizer—as well as a spy. In a life of only thirty years, he studied law in Connecticut, fought border ruffians in Kansas, served as an abolitionist mole in Virginia, took white hostages during the Harper’s Ferry raid, and almost escaped to freedom. For ten days after the infamous raid, he was the most hunted man in America with a staggering one-thousand dollar bounty on his head. Tracking down the unexplored circumstances of John Cook’s life and disastrous end, Steven Lubet is the first to uncover the full extent of Cook’s contributions to Brown’s scheme. Without Cook’s participation, the author contends, Brown might never have been able to launch the insurrection that foreshadowed the Civil War. Had Cook remained true to the cause, history would have remembered him as a hero. Instead, when Cook was captured and brought to trial, he betrayed John Brown and named fellow abolitionists in a full confession that earned him a place in history’s tragic pantheon of disgraced turncoats. “Lubet is especially effective at capturing the courtroom drama . . . A crisply told tale fleshing out one of American history’s more intriguing footnotes.” —Kirkus Reviews “Take[s] readers on a ride through the frantic days surrounding Brown’s raid that will make them ‘feel’ the moment as much as understand it.” —Library Journal (starred review)
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300182635
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
A “compulsively readable” account of the fugitive who betrayed John Brown after the bloody abolitionist raid on Harper’s Ferry (Booklist, starred review). John Brown’s Spy tells the nearly unknown story of John E. Cook, the person John Brown trusted most with the details of his plans to capture the Harper’s Ferry armory in 1859. Cook was a poet, a marksman, a boaster, a dandy, a fighter, and a womanizer—as well as a spy. In a life of only thirty years, he studied law in Connecticut, fought border ruffians in Kansas, served as an abolitionist mole in Virginia, took white hostages during the Harper’s Ferry raid, and almost escaped to freedom. For ten days after the infamous raid, he was the most hunted man in America with a staggering one-thousand dollar bounty on his head. Tracking down the unexplored circumstances of John Cook’s life and disastrous end, Steven Lubet is the first to uncover the full extent of Cook’s contributions to Brown’s scheme. Without Cook’s participation, the author contends, Brown might never have been able to launch the insurrection that foreshadowed the Civil War. Had Cook remained true to the cause, history would have remembered him as a hero. Instead, when Cook was captured and brought to trial, he betrayed John Brown and named fellow abolitionists in a full confession that earned him a place in history’s tragic pantheon of disgraced turncoats. “Lubet is especially effective at capturing the courtroom drama . . . A crisply told tale fleshing out one of American history’s more intriguing footnotes.” —Kirkus Reviews “Take[s] readers on a ride through the frantic days surrounding Brown’s raid that will make them ‘feel’ the moment as much as understand it.” —Library Journal (starred review)
John Brown's Virginia Raid
Author: Philip F. Rose
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466966882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Great Virginia Raid is the story of John Brown’s attempt to seize the United States arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, and free the slaves living in the vicinity. Ten of Brown’s men were killed, Brown himself was arrested, put on trial, found guilty, and was executed. The events occupied a pivotal point in the history of the United States when slavery was readily acceptable by the South. Slavery was about to be overthrown, and the study of John Brown’s actions was classic. In this new book about John Brown, much emphasis was placed upon contemporary newspaper accounts and material obtained from various historical societies and museums.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466966882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Great Virginia Raid is the story of John Brown’s attempt to seize the United States arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, and free the slaves living in the vicinity. Ten of Brown’s men were killed, Brown himself was arrested, put on trial, found guilty, and was executed. The events occupied a pivotal point in the history of the United States when slavery was readily acceptable by the South. Slavery was about to be overthrown, and the study of John Brown’s actions was classic. In this new book about John Brown, much emphasis was placed upon contemporary newspaper accounts and material obtained from various historical societies and museums.
John Brown's Body
Author: Stephen Vincent Benét
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822205944
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
THE STORY: There are three principal speaking parts, plus a chorus that speaks and sings. Though this is technically an epic poem, it is actually a highly dramatic work with a quality of excitement unrivaled by many plays. The poem begins with John
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822205944
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
THE STORY: There are three principal speaking parts, plus a chorus that speaks and sings. Though this is technically an epic poem, it is actually a highly dramatic work with a quality of excitement unrivaled by many plays. The poem begins with John
John Brown
Author: Louis A. DeCaro
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO
ISBN: 9780717807420
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO
ISBN: 9780717807420
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
John Brown, mein Vater
Author: Russell Banks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783442450114
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 859
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783442450114
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 859
Book Description
Supplement to the Annual Reports of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine, for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65 and 1866
Author: Maine. Adjutant General
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Busy in the Cause
Author: Lowell J. Soike
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803271891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation’s western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of the nation. Driven by questions regarding the place of slavery in westward expansion and by the increasing influence of evangelical Protestant faiths that viewed the institution as inherently sinful, political debates about slavery took on a radicalized, uncompromising fervor in states and territories west of the Mississippi River. Busy in the Cause explores the role of the Midwest in shaping national politics concerning slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. In 1856 Iowa aided parties of abolitionists desperate to reach Kansas Territory to vote against the expansion of slavery, and evangelical Iowans assisted runaway slaves through Underground Railroad routes in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. Lowell J. Soike’s detailed and entertaining narrative illuminates Iowa’s role in the stirring western events that formed the prelude to the Civil War.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803271891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation’s western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of the nation. Driven by questions regarding the place of slavery in westward expansion and by the increasing influence of evangelical Protestant faiths that viewed the institution as inherently sinful, political debates about slavery took on a radicalized, uncompromising fervor in states and territories west of the Mississippi River. Busy in the Cause explores the role of the Midwest in shaping national politics concerning slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. In 1856 Iowa aided parties of abolitionists desperate to reach Kansas Territory to vote against the expansion of slavery, and evangelical Iowans assisted runaway slaves through Underground Railroad routes in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. Lowell J. Soike’s detailed and entertaining narrative illuminates Iowa’s role in the stirring western events that formed the prelude to the Civil War.
Deconstructing the Hero
Author: Margery Hourihan
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415144193
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book sets out to explore the structure and meaning of one of the most popular literary genres - the adventure story. It offers analytical readings of some of the most popular adventure stories and looks at their influence on children.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415144193
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book sets out to explore the structure and meaning of one of the most popular literary genres - the adventure story. It offers analytical readings of some of the most popular adventure stories and looks at their influence on children.