The Afterlife of John Brown

An examination of the influence - however contested - of John Brown of the Harper's Ferry Rebellion on the national narrative of the United States

Black People's Ally, White People's Bogeyman: A John Brown Story - Louis A. DeCaro, Jr. * "The blood of millions": John Brown's Body, Public Violence, and Political Community - Franny Nudelman * John Brown, Bearded Patriarch - Jean Libby * "Earth Feels the Time of Prophet-Song": John Brown and Public Poetry - Joe Lockard * Consenting to Violence: Henry David Thoreau, John Brown, and the Transcendent Intellectual - Andrew Taylor * Transforming the "Madman into a Saint": The Cultural Memory Site of John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry in Anti-Slavery Literature and History - Kristen Proehl * Meteor of War: The John Brown Cycle - John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd * Transatlantic Spartacus - Janine C. Hartman * W. E. B. Du Bois's John Brown: Placing Racial Justice at the Center of a Socialist Politics - Julie Husband * "I see your mouth calling/before the words arrive": Muriel Rukeyser's "The Soul and Body of John Brown" and Thirties America - Bruce A. Ronda * John Brown and Children's Literature -Tyler Hoffman * More Heat than Light: The Legacy of John Brown as Portrayed in Cloudsplitter - Kimberley Connor