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