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Oct 16, 2015 · This captivating and insightful work on the women of John Brown's family fills a yawning gap in the recent spate of books dealing with Brown and antislavery violence.
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Challenging students to develop an interpretation of John Brown ties into my broader philosophy about history instruction. Research on history education, going back nearly a century, indicates that few students retain, understand, or enjoy their school experiences with history (1). This dismal track record stems from a teaching method that relies p...
Born in the first year of the nineteenth century to a devoutly Calvinist family, John Brown credits witnessing a slave being beaten with a shovel as the origin of his devotion to the anti-slavery cause. Unlike most of the abolitionists that arose in the 1830s, Brown was dedicated to both the abolition of chattel slavery and racial equality. This co...
The lesson begins with students examining a series of images depicting John Brown (the full lesson plan can be found online at ). Students are asked to describe the emotions each image evokes, identify elements of the piece that help to communicate the artist's perspective, and describe the indiv...
Students have a hard time wrapping their minds around John Brown. Go figure, so do historians. Brown has been the subject of hundreds of books, articles, documentaries, and other forms of historical interpretation. My students, just as historians, are drawn into the complexities of Brown's personality and the actions he takes over the course of his...
- Bruce A. Lesh
- 2011
Mar 22, 2023 · Abolitionist John Brown remains a cultural touchstone over 160 years after his execution for leading the Harpers Ferry Raid in October 1859, largely because that event and Brown’s behavior after it played a part in leading the nation into civil war.
Jun 1, 2013 · The radicalism implied in Obama's approval of Brown's tactics has proven to be short-lived, compromised inevitably by the difficulties of being the first African American president and by an instinctual preference for political moderation.
Feb 13, 2011 · This article, however, makes the case for Brown's representativeness by connecting his career to his formative years in north-eastern Ohio, a geographical and cultural context that shaped Brown's lifelong image of himself as an adviser and manager of wilderness communities.
- W. Caleb McDaniel
- 2011
Interestingly, he makes this declaration in the first line of an introduction written especially for the reissue of Benjamin Quarles’s classic study of African Americans and John Brown, Allies for Freedom (1974).
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Nov 14, 2011 · From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change.
