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Anderson, Osborne P. 1861. A Voice from Harper’s Ferry. Boston: Printed for the author.
Brands, H. W. 2020. The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom. New York: Doubleday.
DeCaro, Jr., Louis A. 2005. Fire from the Midst of You: A Religious Life of John Brown. New York: NYU Press.
DeWitt, Robert M. 1859. The Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown. New York: Robert M. DeWitt, Publisher.
Douglass, Frederick. 1881. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Hartford: Park Publishing Co.
Du Bois, W. E. B. 1909. John Brown. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Company.
Hinton, Richard J,. 1894. John Brown and His Men. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.
Horwitz, Tony. 2011. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. New York: Picador.
Oates, Stephen B. 1970. To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown. Amherst: University Of Massachusetts.
Redpath, James. 1860. The Public Life of Capt. John Brown. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge.
Reynolds, David S. 2006. John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. New York: Vintage.
Robert Penn Warren. 1929. John Brown: The Making of a Martyr. New York: Payson & Clarke.
Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin. 1885. The Life and Letters of John Brown: Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia. Boston: Roberts Brothers.
Stauffer, John, and Zoe Trodd. 2012. The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Villard, Oswald Garrison. 1910. John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company.
Episode 1: “Pierced with the iron”
Brown, John. 1851. “Words of Advice.” West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History. Springfield. https://archive.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/wwbrown.html
Chowder, Ken. 2000. “The Father of American Terrorism.” American Heritage, February 2000. https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/pub/LawContempSoc/HolmesLincoln/Chowder,_The_Father_of_American_Terrorism.pdf
Christian, Nichole M. 2002. “North Elba Journal; Recalling Timbuctoo, a Slice of Black History.” New York Times, February 19, 2002. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/nyregion/north-elba-journal-recalling-timbuctoo-a-slice-of-black-history.html
Guelzo, Allen C. 2003. Review of John Brown: The Legend Revisited, by Merrill D. Peterson. Claremont Review of Books. https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/terrorist-or-madman/
Kielbowicz, Richard B. 2006. “The Law and Mob Law in Attacks on Antislavery Newspapers, 1833–1860.” Law and History Review 24 (3). http://www.jstor.org/stable/27641403
Miller, Daegan. 2013. “At Home in the Great Northern Wilderness: African Americans and Freedom’s Ecology in the Adirondacks, 1846-1859.” Environmental Humanities 2 (1). https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/2/1/117/61609/At-Home-in-the-Great-Northern-Wilderness-African
Stevens, Charles Emery. 1856. Anthony Burns: A History. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company.
Episode 2: “Standing on a volcano”
"Bogus Legislature" of Kansas Territory. 1855. An Act to Punish Offences against Slave Property. Etcheson, Nicole. 2004. Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.
"Free State Legislature" of Kansas Territory. 1855. Topeka Constitution. https://www.kspatriot.org/index.php/articles/72-constitutions-of-kansas-territory
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Francis Jackson Garrison. 1885. William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879: The Story of His Life Told by His Children. Vol. III. New York: The Century Co.
Gihon, John H. 1857. Geary and Kansas. Philadelphia: Chas. C. Rhodes.
Goodrich, Thomas. 2004. War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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Phillips, William Addison. 1856. The Conquest of Kansas, by Missouri and Her Allies. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company.
Pierce, Franklin. 1856. “Message Regarding Disturbances in Kansas.” January 24. https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/january-24-1856-message-regarding-disturbances-kansas
Robinson, Sara T. L. 1856. Kansas, Its Interior and Exterior Life. Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company.
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Wilson, Hill Peebles. 1913. John Brown, Soldier of Fortune: A Critique. Cedar Rapids: The Torch Press.
Episode 3: “The stifled wails of widows”
Bondi, August. 1910. Autobiography of August Bondi, 1833-1907. Galesburg: Wagoner Printing Company.
Brown, George W. 1880. Reminiscences of Old John Brown: Thrilling Incidents of Border Life in Kansas. Rockford: Abraham E. Smith.
Brown, Jason. 1880. “Letter to the Editor: ‘Pottawatomie.’” Akron Beacon, February 8, 1880. https://archive.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/bbssc02-0046.html
Cutler, William G. 1883. History of the State of Kansas. Chicago: A. T. Andreas.
Sumner, Charles. 1856. “The Crime against Kansas.” May 19.
Episode 4: “No ghost of a distinction”
Brown, John. 1857. “Old Brown’s Farewell.” Post. Civil War Notebook. https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/john-brown-old-browns-farewell-april.html
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DeCaro, Jr., Louis A. 2022. The Untold Story of Shields Green. New York: NYU Press.
DeCaro, Jr., Louis A. 2018. Freedom’s Dawn: The Last Days of John Brown in Virginia. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Geffert, Hannah N. 2002. “John Brown and His Black Allies: An Ignored Alliance.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 126 (4). https://www.jstor.org/stable/20093575
Mason, J. M., and Jacob Collamer. 1860. “Senate Select Committee Report on the Harper’s Ferry Invasion (‘Mason Report’).” West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History. Washington: United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee on the Harper’s Ferry Invasion. https://archive.wvculture.org/hiStory/jbexhibit/masonreport.html
Meyer, Eugene L. 2018. Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army. Chicago Review Press.
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