TY - JOUR
AU - Wills, Brian S.
AB - 210 The Journal of American History June 2013 Finally, the structure of the book involves a While the first two chapters, describing certain amount of repetition and backtracking. Brown’s career as a radical abolitionist in Kansas This is a handy collection of Curran’s impor- and into Virginia, tread a familiar biographical tant early work, and should be seen and cele- narrative, Gilpin soon turns his attention to how, brated as such. immediately after his death in 1859, the process of Brown’s memorialization began with the pub- Ryan K. Smith lication of James Redpath’s 1860 biography, Virginia Commonwealth University The Public Life of Capt. John Brown. Redpath’s Richmond, Virginia book constructed its subject as a saintly martyr, doi: 10.1093/jahist/jat046 an image endorsed, as Gilpin shows, by Thomas Hovenden’s celebrated 1885 etching The Last Moments of John Brown, depicting Brown as John Brown Still Lives! America’s Long Reckoning “an acceptable Christian symbol for white au- with Violence, Equality, and Change. By R. diences” (p. 66). Not until W. E. B. Du Bois’s Blakeslee Gilpin. (Chapel Hill: University of 1909 biography, John Brown, would an African North Carolina Press, 2011. xvi, 279 pp. American reading of Brown turn the focus away $30.00.) 
TI - The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jat117
DA - 2013-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-long-road-to-antietam-how-the-civil-war-became-a-revolution-vF0ciG5Ir5
SP - 210
EP - 211
VL - 100
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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