Featured Podcasts
John Brown, Abolitionist: David Reynolds
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/wp/?p=42
David Reynolds reassesses the legacy of John Brown, who
was hanged for his role in the October 1859 raid on the
federal armory at Harpers Ferry. Reynolds states that
Brown did not live on the fringe of American life, but
was at the very center of it. A devout Calvinist possessing
unshakable integrity and faith in the righteousness of
his violent actions against slavery, Brown was the only
abolitionist in the years before the Civil War to live
among blacks, advocate a rewritten constitution that would
make slaves citizens, and ultimately to take up arms and
give his life for the abolitionist cause.
Books
William H. Freehling, The Road to Disunion.
A thorough exploration of the causes of the Civil War.
Films
Santa Fe Trail
A fanciful recreation of the fight for Kansas during the
1850s with Ronald Reagan, Errol Flynn, and Olivia De Haviland.
Web Sites
Recommended Web Site:
John Brown's Holy War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/
The companion site to PBS’s American Experience
broadcast contains a timeline, maps, glossary, and historical
overviews on a variety of topics related to John Brown’s
raid on Harpers Ferry.
Related Web Sites:
Bleeding Kansas
http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php
Books, diaries, autobiographies, and letters documenting
the struggle over slavery in territorial Kansas.
19th Century Documents
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/19th.asp
The full text of the Fugitive Slave Act, the Kansas-Nebraska
Act, and other important antebellum political documents.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/
Texts, images, songs, 3-D objects, and film clips relating
to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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