EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book John Brown Photo Chronology

Download or read book John Brown Photo Chronology written by Jean Libby and published by Allies for Freedom Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs were among the weapons John Brown used to attack slavery. The known photo portraits of the abolitionist are presented in fine full color reproduction from the original sources in archives and collections. Fourteen daguerreotype portraits made over the turbulent years 1846 - 1859 have forensic and historical documentation of the subject, the photographers, and 19th century photograph history.

Book John Brown s Raid on Harpers Ferry

Download or read book John Brown s Raid on Harpers Ferry written by Jonathan Earle and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despised and admired during his life and after his execution, the abolitionist John Brown polarized the nation and remains one of the most controversial figures in U.S. history. His 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, failed to inspire a slave revolt and establish a free Appalachian state but became a crucial turning point in the fight against slavery and a catalyst for the violence that ignited the Civil War. Jonathan Earle’s volume presents Brown as neither villain nor martyr, but rather as a man whose deeply held abolitionist beliefs gradually evolved to a point where he saw violence as inevitable. Earle’s introduction and his collection of documents demonstrate the evolution of Brown’s abolitionist strategies and the symbolism his actions took on in the press, the government, and the wider culture. The featured documents include Brown’s own writings, eyewitness accounts, government reports, and articles from the popular press and from leading intellectuals. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, a list of important figures, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support.

Book Freedom s Dawn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louis DeCaro
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2015-06-25
  • ISBN : 1442236736
  • Pages : 477 pages

Download or read book Freedom s Dawn written by Louis DeCaro and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Brown’s failed raid on the federal armory in Harper’s Ferry Virginia served as a vital precursor to the Civil War, but its importance to the struggle for justice is free standing and exceptional in the history of the United States. In Freedom's Dawn, Louis DeCaro, Jr., has written the first book devoted exclusively to Brown during the six weeks between his arrest and execution. DeCaro traces his evolution from prisoner to convicted felon, to a prophetic figure, then martyr, and finally the rise of his legacy. In doing so he touches upon major biographical themes in Brown’s story, but also upon antebellum political issues, violence and terrorism, and the themes of political imprisonment and martyrdom.

Book John Brown Photo Chronology Supplement

Download or read book John Brown Photo Chronology Supplement written by Jean Libby and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: new discoveries and revisions in a 32-page supplement to the John Brown Photo Chronology catalog published in 2009. .Mary Brown's Life Journeys are new biographical and commemorative materials created in 2014 and 2016

Book The Afterlife of John Brown

Download or read book The Afterlife of John Brown written by E. Herrington and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-12-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An examination of the influence--however contested--of John Brown of the Harper's Ferry Rebellion on the national narrative of the United States"--Amazon.com.

Book Meteor of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zoe Trodd
  • Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
  • Release : 2004-07-16
  • ISBN : 9781881089391
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Meteor of War written by Zoe Trodd and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2004-07-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few men in American history have been at once as glorified and maligned as John Brown. From his attack of the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in October 1859, as part of a scheme to free the slaves, Brown has been called a saint and sinner, rogue and redeemer, martyr and madman. Brown rebelled against the American government, and he murdered men in Kansas in order to end the murderous institution of slavery. He denounced war, but made war on his government in order to end an existing war for slavery. This anthology, which presents Brown's writing and diverse responses to his life and raid, offers a lens through which to analyze these tensions and contradictions. Extensive introductions to every source offer a close reading of language and provide full historical and biographical background.

Book A Shipyard at War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Johnston
  • Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
  • Release : 2014-11-19
  • ISBN : 1848323018
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book A Shipyard at War written by Ian Johnston and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of photos illustrating the work of the famed British shipbuilders of World War I. Although best known for large liners and capital ships, between 1914 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Co. built a vast range of vessels—major warships down to destroyers and submarines, unusual designs like a seaplane carrier and submarine depot ship, and even a batch of war-standard merchant ships. This makes the yard a particularly good example of the wartime shipbuilding effort. Clydebank employed professional photographers to record the whole process of construction, using large plate cameras that produced pictures of stunning clarity and detail; but unlike most shipyard photography, Clydebank’s collection has survived, although relatively few of the images have ever been published. For this book, some two hundred of the most telling were carefully selected and scanned to the highest standards, depicting in unprecedented detail every aspect of the yard’s output, from the liner Aquitania in 1913 to the cruiser Enterprise, completed in 1920. Although ships are the main focus of the book, the photos also chronicle the impact of the war on working conditions in the yard—and the introduction of women in large numbers to the workforce. With lengthy and informative captions, and an authoritative introduction by Ian Johnston, this book is a vivid portrait of a lost industry at the height of its success.

Book John Brown Remembered

Download or read book John Brown Remembered written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slave Life in Georgia

Download or read book Slave Life in Georgia written by John Brown and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Brown

Download or read book John Brown written by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1909, W.E.B. Du Bois's biography of abolitionist John Brown is a literary and historical classic. With a rare combination of scholarship and passion, Du Bois defends Brown against all detractors who saw him as a fanatic, fiend, or traitor. Brown emerges as a rich personality, fully understandable as an unusual leader with a deeply religious outlook and a devotion to the cause of freedom for the slave. This new edition is enriched with an introduction by John David Smith and with supporting documents relating to Du Bois's correspondence with his publisher. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book The Self interpreting Bible

Download or read book The Self interpreting Bible written by John Brown and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Letters of John Brown

Download or read book The Life and Letters of John Brown written by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fiery Vision

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clinton Cox
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780590475747
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Fiery Vision written by Clinton Cox and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the controversial abolitionist who led the raid on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

Book A John Brown Reader

Download or read book A John Brown Reader written by John Brown and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides a selection of letters by the abolitionist himself, the original collection includes an excerpt from W. E. B. Du Bois's biography, John Brown, addresses by Frederick Douglass and Ralph Waldo Emerson, poetry by Louisa May Alcott, and more.

Book Cloudsplitter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Russell Banks
  • Publisher : Vintage Canada
  • Release : 2011-08-10
  • ISBN : 0307367533
  • Pages : 837 pages

Download or read book Cloudsplitter written by Russell Banks and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A triumph of the imagination, rich in incident and beautiful in its detail, Cloudsplitter brings to life one of history's legendary figures--John Brown, whose passion to abolish slavery lit the fires of the American Civil War in a conflagration that changed civilization.

Book John Brown

Download or read book John Brown written by Louis A. DeCaro and published by INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Civil War in 50 Objects

Download or read book The Civil War in 50 Objects written by Harold Holzer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects, a fresh, visual perspective on the Civil War From a soldier’s diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown’s pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the leaves from Abraham Lincoln’s bier, here is a unique and surprisingly intimate look at the Civil War. Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer sheds new light on the war by examining fifty objects from the New-York Historical Society’s acclaimed collection. A daguerreotype of an elderly, dignified ex-slave; a soldier’s footlocker still packed with its contents; Grant’s handwritten terms of surrender at Appomattox—the stories these objects tell are rich, poignant, sometimes painful, and always fascinating. They illuminate the conflict from all perspectives—Union and Confederate, military and civilian, black and white, male and female—and give readers a deeply human sense of the war.