NEW: John Brown Bibilography

JOHN BROWN BIOGRAPHIES

Louis A. DeCaro Jr. Biographies (the best place to start)

• John Brown Today Blog

• John Brown Today Podcast

• Books: 

  • Fire from the midst of you: a religious life of John Brown

  • John Brown: the cost of freedom

  • Freedom’s dawn: the last days of John Brown in Virginia

  • John Brown speaks: letters and statements from Charlestown

  • The untold story of Shields Green: the life and death of a Harper’s Ferry raider

OTHER BIOGRAPHIES

• John Brown: A Biography, W.E.B. Du Bois

• John Brown’s Journey: Notes and Reflections on His America And Mine, Albert Fried

• Allies For Freedom & Blacks on John Brown, Benjamin Quarles

• John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, And Seeded Civil Rights, David S. Reynolds, 2005

• Black Voices from Harper's Ferry: Osborne Anderson and the John Brown Raid, Jean Libby

• John Brown in NY: The Man, His Family, and the Adirondack Landscape, by Sandra Weber 

• Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army, Eugene Meyer

• John Brown Mysteries, Allies for Freedom

• John Brown: His Fight for Freedom, John Hendrix

• The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown’s Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism, Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz

• John Brown’s Trial, Brian McGinty

• Pursuing John Brown: on The Trail of a Radical Abolitionist, Joyce Dyer

• The Hands of God and the Glittering Sword: a Theological History of John Brown, Christian Chiakulas

• “The communism of John Brown ft. Christian Chiakulas” conversation with Jared Ball

RESPONSES: SPEECHES AND EDITORIALS

• Remarks delivered at the 24th annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, October 25-26, 1860, Lucretia Mott

• "A Plea for Captain John Brown," Henry David Thoreau (zine)

• John Brown: An Address, Frederick Douglass

• “Haitian Response to the John Brown Tragedy,” Leon D. Pamphile

• John Brown 2000, U.S. Political Prisoner/POW Writings on the 200th Birthday of John Brown and Nat Turner

• Featured in Let Freedom Ring : A Collection of Documents From The Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners, Matt Meyer (ed.)

• No fascist USA!: the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements, Hillary Moore & James Tracy 

• “The Return of John Brown: White Race-Traitors in The 2020 Uprising,” Arturo and Shemon

MUSIC

• The glory of Negro history, Langston Hughes

• John Brown: sword of the spirit, Magpie

• “Take me back to Harpers Ferry,” Magpie

• “John Brown’s Gat,” The 1865

John Brown Project Music

• “John Brown’s Body, 2022 Remix”

• John Brown’s Body, Swing Remix”

• John Brown's Body: An Acoustic Blues Peek at American Music History

• A Rock and Roll Peek at American History

• John Brown's Body: A Clawhammer Peek at American Music History

VIDEO

John Brown Project Documentary Videos

• Was John Brown A Terrorist? (No.), The John Brown Project, Jan, 2022

• Remember Harper’s Ferry! Dr. Louis DeCaro in Torrington, CT, Oct 2022

• Abolition in CT and How John Brown Fits In, Dr. Manisha Sinha to “Tiny Abolitionist Film Festival,” June, 2023

• Who John Brown Wasn’t, Dr. Louis A. DeCaro, Jr., Sep 2025

• Who John Brown Was, Dr. Louis A. DeCaro, Jr., Sep 2025

• A Tuskegee Airman on Systemic Racism in the US, Brig. Gen. Enoch Woodhouse II, Sep 2024

• The Legal History of Systemic Racism, Dr. Manisha Sinha, Aug 2024

• A Closer Look at the 14th Amendment, Dr. Manisha Sinha, Aug 2024

• John Henry and Other Black Ballads of Reconstruction, Sule Greg Wilson, Feb 2025

• His Truth is Marching On, Musical Documentary Film, Oct 2022