The Day They Hanged Old Brown
University of Missouri Press (Verlag)
978-0-8262-2338-8 (ISBN)
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Brown’s lifespan covered most of the period between the Revolution and the Civil War, a time of the still-early beginnings of the United States. Only then had his kind of “celebrity” started to matter. From different economic and moral perspectives, politically aware Americans clashed over different visions for the future of the country. At that time, any disruptive figure might be taken as a barometer of the progress or the decline of the republic. A function of the widely varying newspapers and magazines of that day, celebrity offered Americans an angle of vision, happily or not, as to who they were or were becoming or believed themselves to be—as if by a mirror reflection.
In The Day They Hanged Old Brown, John Van Atta examines the creation of celebrity in John Brown’s time and how it differed from modern day perceptions. Yet, as applicable as the concept of celebrity is in this case, the story of Brown’s notoriety represents far more. To his admirers, Brown was not merely a celebrity; he was a hero and, after his sacrificial death, a martyr. Not all celebrities rise to such levels. This book traces the meaning of heroism and martyrdom—as well as the opposite side of that coin, villainy—and suggests that John Brown’s story and legacy helped to redefine these concepts for many Americans during the era of the Civil War, before modern historians began to deliberate him.
John R. Van Atta, who received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia, specializes in the Early Republic period of U.S. History (1776-1865) as well as nineteenth-century America generally. He taught at Hiram College in Ohio and, for thirty-six years, at Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he held the Oaklawn Chair in American History until retiring in 2020. He is the author of four books, Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785-1850 (2014); Wolf by the Ears: The Missouri Crisis, 1819-1821 (2015); and Charging Up San Juan Hill: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Imperial America (2018), all published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
List of Illustrations/ ix
Acknowledgements/ xi
Introduction/ 3
Prologue: Charles Town, December 2, 1859/ 13
Chapter One: Celebrity/ 29
Chapter Two: Here/ 75
Chapter Three: Villain/ 117
Chapter Four: Martyr/ 163
Chapter Five: Memory/ 209
Epilogue: Storer College, May 30, 1881/ 251
Notes/ 265
Bibliographical Essay/ 301
Index/ 319
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.10.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 10 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Missouri |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 626 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8262-2338-9 / 0826223389 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8262-2338-8 / 9780826223388 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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