Culture Change and the New Technology: An Archaeology of the Early American Industrial Era
Paul A. Shackel, 1996
Harpers Ferry was one of America’s earliest and most significant industrial communities – serving as an excellent example of the changing patterns of human relations that led to dramatic progress in work life and in domestic […]
John Brown Speaks: Letters and Statements from Charlestown
Louis DeCaro, Jr., 2015
This collection of writings by John Brown in the fateful days after his raid on Harper’s Ferry showcase the depth of conviction of Brown’s character. Paired with Louis DeCaro’s narrative of the aftermath, trial, and execution […]
Freedom’s Dawn: The Last Days of John Brown in Virginia
Louis DeCaro, Jr., 2015
John Brown’s failed raid on the federal armory in Harper’s Ferry Virginia served as a vital precursor to the Civil War, but its importance to the struggle for justice is free standing and exceptional in the […]
“Truman Nelson’s biography of John Brown is a refreshing and eloquent corrective to the common misconceptions about the character and actions of this extraordinary American hero.”—Howard Zinn On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a historic […]
A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century. In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero […]
Military Operations in Jefferson County (Virginia & West Virginia) 1861-1865 (Containing Eyewitness Accounts of Civil War Skirmishes in the Lower Shenandoah Valley)
Charles S. Aadams, 1999
An update of the 1996 edition of military operations in the lower Shenandoah Valley, the book offers brief, often eyewitness accounts of the skirmishes in the four years of the Civil War. Jefferson County today is […]
Harpers Ferry Houses: Houses of Historic Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Stowell Architects, 2011
This Second Edition guide to Harpers Ferry Houses, by Stowell Architects, compiles years of photos and research from ages past, the 1970’s, and updated data for the 21st Century. Internationally available, but born locally, this Unlimited […]
The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: A Devil, Two Rivers, and a Dream (American Association for State and Local History)
Teresa S. Moyer, Paul A. Shackel, 2007
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is most widely known today for the attempted slave revolt led by John Brown in 1859, the nucleus for the interpretation of the current national park. Here, Moyer and Shackel tell […]
