Julia Brooker Thompson Library
University of Connecticut Torrington Campus
855 University Drive
Torrington, CT 06790
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Birthplace of John Brown
John Brown Rd.
Torrington, Connecticut
John Brown
Video:
John Brown's holy war. [Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS
Video, c2000.
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Books:
Banks, Russell. Cloudsplitter : a novel. New York, NY :
HarperPerennial, 1999.
PS3552.A49 C57 1999
Bennett, David Ross. John Brown birthplace. [Torrington, CT] :
Torrington Historical Society, c2002.
E451 .B46 2002
Boyer, Richard O. The legend of John Brown: a biography and a
history. New York, Knopf, 1973 [c1972]
E451 .B77
DeCaro, Louis A. "Fire from the midst of you" : a religious
life of John Brown. New York : New York University Press,
c2002.
E451 .D43 2002
Du Bois, W. E. B. Roediger, David R. John Brown. New York :
Modern Library, 2001.
E451 .D8 2001
Du Bois, W. E. B. , Smith, John David .John Brown : a
biography . Armonk, N.Y. ; London : M.E. Sharpe, c1997.
E451 .D8 1997
Ehrlich, Leonard. God's angry man. New York, The Press of the
Readers Club [c1941]|
PZ3.E333 G8
Finkelman, Pau. His soul goes marching on : responses to John
Brown and the Harpers Ferry raid. Charlottesville : University
Press of Virginia, 1995.
E451 .H68 1995
Oates, Stephen B. To purge this land with blood : a biography of
John Brown. Amherst.University of Mass. Press, 1984.
E451 .O17 1984
Oates, Stephen B. Our fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln, John
Brown, and the Civil War era. Amherst : University of
Massachusetts Press, 1979.
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Peterson, Merrill D. John Brown : the legend revisited.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2002.
E451.B8786 P47 2002
Quarles, Benjamin. Allies for freedom / Blacks on John Brown.
[S.l.] : Da Capo Press, 2001.
E451 .Q37 2001
Renehan, Edward. The secret six : the true tale of the men who
conspired with John Brown. New York : Crown Publishers,
c1995.
E451 .R44 1995
Rossbach, Jeffery S. Ambivalent conspirators : John Brown, the
secret six, and a theory of slave violence. Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
E451 .R75 1982
Sanborn, F. B. The life and letters of John Brown; liberator
of Kansas and martyr of Virginia. New York, Negro Universities
Press [1969, c1885]
E451 .S19 1969
Stauffer, John. The black hearts of men : radical abolitionists
and the transformation of race.Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard
University Press, 2002.
E449 .S813 2002
Thoreau, Henry David. Atkinson, Brooks. Walden and other
writings. New York : Modern Library, c2000.
PS3042 .A7 2000
Toledo, Gregory. The hanging of Old Brown : a story of slaves,
statesmen, and redemption .Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
E451 .T65 2002
Related Subtopics:
Anitslavery Movements
Mayer, Henry. All on fire : William Lloyd Garrison and the
abolition of slavery. New York : St. Martin's Griffin,
2000.
E449 .G2557 2000
Harrold, Stanley. The abolitionists and the south, 1831-1861
Lexington, KY : University of Kentucky Press, c1995.
E449 .H297 1995
Yellin, Jean Fagan and John C. Van Horne. The Abolitionist
sisterhood : women's political culture in Antebellum America
Cornell University Press, 1994. E449 .A1555 1994
Torrington History
Bailey, Bess. Torrington. Torrington, Conn. : Torrington
Historical Society, c1975-
F104.T7 B3 1975 v.1-v.3
Hodges, Theodore B. Erastus Hodges, 1781-1847 : Connecticut
manufacturer, merchant & entrepreneur.West Kennebunk, Me. :
Published for the National Association of Watch and Clock
Collectors and the Torrington Historical Society by Phoenix Pub.,
c1994.
HC102.5.H62 H63 1994
Orcutt, Samuel. History of Torrington, Connecticut : from its
first settlement in 1737, with biographies and
genealogies. Bowie, Md. : Heritage Books, 1990.
F104.T7 O6 1990
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