Category John Brown
Gettysburg National Military Park’s 2025 Winter Lecture Schedule
Gettysburg National Military Park just released the schedule for their 2025 Winter Lecture Series. Look for me in the front row. Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 p.m.January 4 through February 23, 2025Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center [Begin quote] Saturday January 4 – Ambrose Powell Hill – The Enduring Mystery of Lee’s Enigmatic […]
The Emergence of Lincoln: Prologue to Civil War 1859-1861
This book by Allan Nevins is the fourth in the Ordeal of the Union series. The major events this volume covers are John Brown’s Harpers Ferry Raid, the split in the Democratic Party, the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the secession of the Cotton States. The big argument between the sections was the argument over […]
From States’ Rights to Slavery: What Caused the American Civil War?
The folks at historynet.com put together this post to give us links to stories about the events leading up to the Civil War. They tell us, “The Northern and Southern sections of the United States developed along different lines. The South remained a predominantly agrarian economy while the North became more and more industrialized. Different […]
Gettysburg National Military Park 2021 Winter Lecture Series
You can access all the lectures at this site. They are well worth watching.
John Brown and Abraham Lincoln
Here’s Professor H. W. Brands giving a typically great presentation based on his latest book, The Zealot and the Emancipator, which is a dual look at Brown and Lincoln. This was part of the 2020 Virtual Lincoln Forum. The video’s description reads, “In October 1859 — just 18 months before the first shots of the Civil […]
The Zealot and the Emancipator
Here’s Professor H. W. Brands talking about his new book, The Zealot and the Emancipator, which is about John Brown and Abraham Lincoln. The video’s description reads, “Historian H.W. Brands provided a dual biography of abolitionist John Brown and Abraham Lincoln. This was a virtual event hosted by the Atlanta History Center.” https://www.c-span.org/video/?477309-1/the-zealot-emancipator
Civil War Talk Radio Episode 1707: The Zealot and the Emancipator
This is a pretty good conversation between host Professor Gerald Prokopowicz and his guest, Professor H. W. Brands. They discuss John Brown and Abraham Lincoln, based on Professor Brands’s new book.
The Civil War; Interview with Ed Bearss
This is the full-length Ken Burns interview with Ed Bearss done for Burns’s miniseries, “The Civil War” on PBS. The description reads, “This is raw footage of an interview that Ken Burns conducted with Civil War historian Ed Bearss on July 14, 1986. In this interview, Bearss demonstrates his expansive knowledge on the events of […]
Franklin County Historical Society Teaches Myth
On Saturday, April 29, 2017 I visited Chambersburg, PA for their special History Day, where a number of sites of historical importance were open with free admission. I first visited Mary Ritner’s Boarding House, which is the house John Brown used to plan his Harper’s Ferry Raid. The house has some really good artifacts and […]
American Experience John Brown’s Holy War
Here’s the American Experience episode covering John Brown. It’s not bad. I’ll post more about John Brown sometime in the future. In the meantime, where do you stand? Was John Brown insane or was he sane? Was he a hero or a villain?
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