Harpers Ferry

Author : Jonathan Earle
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319241689
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Teresa S. Moyer
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759110663
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park written by Teresa S. Moyer and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is most widely known today for the attempted slave revolt led by John Brown in 1859, the nucleus for the interpretation of the current national park. Here, Teresa S. Moyer and Paul A. Shackel tell the behind-the-scenes story of how this event was chosen and preserved for commemoration, providing lessons for federal, state, local, and non-profit organizations who continually struggle over the dilemma about which past to present to the public. Professional and non-professional audiences alike will benefit from their important insights into how federal agencies interpret the past, and in turn shape public memory.

Author : Merritt Roe Smith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801491818
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology written by Merritt Roe Smith and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1980-04-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the day-to-day operations of the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, between 1798 and 1861, reveals the impact of the then new technology of mechanized production on organization, management, and worker morale.

Author : Joseph Barry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry written by Joseph Barry and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis E. Frye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578647163
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harpers Ferry Under Fire written by Dennis E. Frye and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dolly Nasby
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738544144
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harpers Ferry written by Dolly Nasby and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The site of one of George Washington's arsenals and John Brown's failed raid is depicted in photographs, showing how the town has barely changed over time due to the National Park Service's restorations.

Author : Mark A. Lause
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745337609
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Road to Harpers Ferry written by Mark A. Lause and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of home-grown American radicalism in the 19th century.

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Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455605576
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harpers Ferry written by and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folder includes research notes and other material such as journal articles, and copies of and extracts from Jefferson-related correspondence.

Author : Chester G. Hearn
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807141298
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Years of Hell: Harpers Ferry During the Civil War written by Chester G. Hearn and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jon-Erik M. Gilot
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611215986
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Brown's Raid written by Jon-Erik M. Gilot and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first shot of the American Civil War was not fired on April 12, 1861, in Charleston, South Carolina, but instead came on October 16, 1859, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia—or so claimed former slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The shot came like a meteor in the dark. John Brown, the infamous fighter on the Kansas plains and detester of slavery, led a band of nineteen men on a desperate nighttime raid that targeted the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. There, they planned to begin a war to end slavery in the United States. But after 36 tumultuous hours, John Brown’s Raid failed, and Brown himself became a prisoner of the state of Virginia. Brown’s subsequent trial further divided north and south on the issue of slavery as Brown justified his violent actions to a national audience forced to choose sides. Ultimately, Southerners cheered Brown’s death at the gallows while Northerners observed it with reverence. The nation’s dividing line had been drawn. Herman Melville and Walt Whitman extolled Brown as a “meteor” of the war. Roughly one year after Brown and his men attacked slavery in Virginia, the nation split apart, fueled by Brown’s fiery actions. John Brown’s Raid tells the story of the first shots that led to disunion. Richly filled with maps and images, it includes a driving and walking tour of sites related to Brown’s Raid so visitors today can follow the path of America’s meteor.