To Purge This Land with Blood
A Biography of John Brown
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10239503 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Merton L Dillon (corresponding author), Stephen B Oates (York University) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111 |
| Publication date | 1971-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2205937 |
| OpenAlex | W1979111809 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
Nearly one hundred fifty years after his epochal Harpers Ferry raid to free the slaves, John Brown is still one of the most controversial figures in American history. In 1970, Stephen B. Oates wrote what has come to be recognized as the definitive biography of Brown, a balanced assessment that captures the man in all his complexity. The book is now back in print in an updated edition with a new prologue by the author
Art · Art history · Biography · Political science · Purge · American Environmental and Regional History · History · Law
Historical Fiction about John Brown and Male Identity in Radical Movements
John Brown, Quietist
John Brown as guerrilla terrorist
Accusing Justice
The Limitations of Classroom Media
What’s so bad about fanaticism
The Political Economy of the American Frontier
Founding Fanatics
If You're Not Black You're White
Jurisprudence as performance
Modeling Emotional Dynamics
Their Souls Are Marching On
Alienation flows through the barrel of a gun
Memory and Sacrifice
Out of Chatham
John Brown, Terrorist
John Brown is immortal”
Federalists, Abolitionists, and the Problem of Influence
Abolition and the Color Line
Heyward Shepherd
Terrible saint
John Brown's Body
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2026 (38) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |