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John Brown Bibliography
The Hudson Library & Historical Society maintains an extensive book collection on John Brown and the Underground Railroad. Below are recommended books on John Brown. For the full list of titles that the Hudson Library & Historical Society owns, see the online catalog. Please note that some John Brown books do not circulate. Please contact us for more information.
Recommended Reading
After Harper’s Ferry: John Brown’s Widow--Her Family and the Saratoga Years. Saratoga, CA: Saratoga Historical Foundation, 1964.
Blight, David W., ed., Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory. New York: Collins-HarperCollins, 2004.
Boyer, Richard O., The Legend of John Brown: A Biography and History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.
DuBois, W.E., Burghardt, John Brown. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1909.
Carton, Evan, Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America. New York: Free Press, 2006.
Case, Lora, Hudson of Long Ago: Reminiscences. 1897. Hudson, OH: The Hudson Library & Historical Society, 1963.
Cohen, Stan, John Brown: The Thundering Voice of Jehovah. Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Inc., 1999.
Cox, Clinton, Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown. New York: Scholastic Press, 1997.
DeCaro, Louis A., John Brown: The Man Who Lived. Lulu.com, 2008.
DeCaro, Louis A., Fire from the Midst of You: A Religious Life of John Brown. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
DeCaro, Louis A., John Brown: The Cost of Freedom. New York: International Publishers, 2007
Earle, Jonathan,. John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008.
Finkelman, Paul, ed., His Soul Goes Marching On: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Hinks, Peter, and John McKivigan, eds., Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
Hinton, Richard J., John Brown and His Men. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1894.
Nudelman, Franny. John Brown’s Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Oates, Stephen B., To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.
O’Connor, Bob, Catesby: Eyewitness to the Civil War. Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing.com, 2008.
Peterson, Merrill D., John Brown: The Legend Revisited. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2002.
Redpath, James, The Public Life of Captain John Brown. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860.
Reynolds, David S., John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Renehan, Edward J., The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown. 1995. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1997.
Ruchames, Louis, ed., A John Brown Reader. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1959.
Ruchames, Louis, ed., John Brown: The Making of a Revolutionary. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1969.
Russo, Peggy A. and Paul Finkelman, eds., Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005.
Saddler, Harry Dean, John Brown: The Magnificent Failure. Pittsburgh, PA: Dorrance & Company, Inc., 1951.
Sanborn, F.B., ed., The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891.
Villard, Oswald Garrison, John Brown: A Biography Fifty Years After. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910.
Books for Young People
Bial, Raymond. The Underground Railroad. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.
Collins, James L., John Brown and the Fight Against Slavery. Brookfield, CT: The Millbrook Press, 1991.
Cox, Clinton, Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown. New York: Scholastic Press, 1997.
January, Brendan, John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry. New York: Children's Press-Grolier, 2000.
Kent, Zachary, The Story of John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry. Chicago: Children's Press, 1988.
Potter, Robert R., John Brown: Militant Abolitionist. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaugn Publishers, 1995.
Scott, John Anthony and Robert Alan Scott, John Brown of Harper's Ferry. New York: Facts On File Publications, 1988.
Stein, R. Conrad, John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1999.
Streissguth, Tom, John Brown. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc. 1999.
Tackach, James, The Trial of John Brown: Radical Abolitionist. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1998.
