Duke University’s Sallie Bingham Center is an invaluable resource for studying the life and culture of American women. While the collection covers a broad range of topics on all aspects of women’s history, its strength is in Southern women and there are a great deal of resources pertaining specifically to the 19th century. This page […]
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Sallie Bingham Center at Duke University
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Harpers Ferry – Fugitives in PA
Posted by sailerd Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Historic Periodicals, ImagesThe Harpers Ferry story does not end when John Brown was captured early in the morning on October 18, 1859. While five members of his group managed to escape (including Barclay Coppoc, who later served in the Union army), others were not as fortunate. Albert Hazlett and John Edwin Cook, who were traveling separately, were […]
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Harpers Ferry – "Good Out of Evil"
Posted by sailerd Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Historic PeriodicalsLast week I discussed a southern newspaper that argued that only legal means should be used against abolitionists who threatened southern communities. Immediately after the Harpers Ferry Raid, however, this newspaper had a different perspective. The editor was not concerned about abolitionists invading the South, but rather argued in late October 1859 that Harpers Ferry […]
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John Brown – Gilder Lehrman Institute
Posted by sailerd Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Places to VisitThe Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has a new online exhibit on John Brown. The exhibit covers Brown’s life in the 1850s, the attack on Harpers Ferry, and Brown’s legacy. While only a few documents are available right now, they will add more material every month through March 2010. The Gilder Lehrman Institute has […]
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These two reports from November 1860 use John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry to argue that a federal arsenal in Fayetteville, North Carolina had to protected, but not in the way that one might expect. Rather than have the local militia continue to provide protection, some Fayetteville residents asked the War Department to send soldiers. […]
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Though previously mentioned in another post, the The Valley of the Shadow Project has a wide range of primary sources from newspapers, maps, letters, and statistics all available for use in the 7-12 classroom. Broken up chronologically into three periods, the Project archives two communities (Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania) between the years […]
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The Valley of the Shadow
Posted by sailerd Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Images, Letters & DiariesThe Valley of the Shadow is a great resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the different ways that northerners and southerners reacted to John Brown’s attack on Harpers Ferry. This digital history project, which from the Virginia Center for Digital History, focuses on two communities – Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, […]
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Magazines for Children in the 19th Century
Posted by Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Images, Lesson Plans, ListsUnderstanding family life in the 19th century necessitates a look at what was popular with children at the time. This website, put together by an English professor at West Chester University, lists periodicals for children published in the nineteenth century, each of which includes a chronological list of its important articles and links to a digital copy. The magazine […]
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Harpers Ferry Sesquicentennial
Posted by sailerd Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Lesson Plans, Places to Visit, Recent NewsA number of organizations in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland have organized events for the sesquicentennial anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. These include the Virginia Historical Society’s exhibit “The Portent: John Brown’s Raid in American Memory,” a reenactment of the march from the Kennedy Farm in Maryland to Harpers Ferry, and […]
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Harpers Ferry – Southern Reaction
Posted by sailerd Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Historic PeriodicalsThe South’s reaction to John Brown’s attack is often characterized as a violent one. “The shock and fear John Brown had instigated fueled widespread panic…[that] fed into paranoia vented in aggressive acts,” as historian David Reynolds explains. Yet not all southerners accepted violent actions. Protecting their communities remained a high priority, but these southerners argued […]
