Paper Abstracts
John Brown: A Problem in Biography
- David Reynolds, City University of New York, Baruch College
How I Wrote John Brown, Abolitionist: A Cultural Biography - Evan Carton, The University of Texas at Austin
The Word and the Life: John Brown as Reader - Robert Blakeslee Gilpin,Center for the Study of the American South, UNC-Chapel Hill
The Wind and the Whirlwind: Can Biography Explain John Brown? - Louis A. DeCaro Jr., Nyack/Alliance Theological Seminary
The Old Man and the “DuBoisian Century”? Meditation and Speculation on the Direction of John Brown Biography in the 21st Century
John Brown and the Arts
- Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, University of Pennsylvania
John Brown Embodied: An Afterlife in American Visual Culture - Franny Nudelman, Carleton University
John Brown, Martin Luther King, and the Art of “Creative Suffering” - Kirke Mechem, Composer
John Brown: The Opera - Robert Stepto, Yale University
John Brown in the Visual Art of Hovenden, Lawrence and Pippin
John Brown and the Legacies of Violence
- Beverly Gage, Yale University
Was John Brown a Terrorist? - David Rapoport, UCLA
Mob Violence - Kay Wright Lewis, Rutgers University
Considerations on the Rhetoric of Race War in the Antebellum South and John Brown - Caleb Smith, Yale University
John Brown, Justice, and the Public Sphere
John Brown and Abolitionism
- John Stauffer, Harvard University
‘I’ll be John Browned’: Abolition in the Southern Imagination - Richard Blackett, Vanderbilt University
John Brown and the Tradition of Attacking Slavery at the Source - W. Caleb McDaniel, Rice University
William Lloyd Garrison, Nonviolent Abolitionists, and John Brown - Wendy Hamand Venet, Georgia State University
John Brown, Female Abolitionists, and Rights for Women: A Mixed Legacy