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Suggestions for Further Reading

John Brown & Abolitionism in Iowa

Books

Banks, Russell. Cloudsplitter: a novel.  New York:  HarperFlamingo, 1998.

Berrier, G. Galin. "The Underground Railroad in Iowa." In Outside In: African-American History in Iowa, 1838-2000, edited by Bill Silag, Susan Koch-Bridgford, and Hal Chase. Des Moines: State Historical Society of Iowa, 2001.

Reynolds, David S.  John Brown, Abolitionist: the man who killed slavery, sparked the Civil War and seeded civil rights.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

Russo, Peggy A. and Paul Finkelman. Terrible Swift Sword: the legacy of John Brown.  Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005.

Periodical Articles

Acton, Richard. "The Story of Ann Raley: Mother of the Coppoc Boys." Palimpsest 72 (Spring 1991): 20-33.

Connor, James E. "The Antislavery Movement in Iowa." Parts 1 & 2. Annals of Iowa 40 (1970): 343-76, 450-79.

"John Brown Among the Quakers." Palimpsest 41 (1960): 1-80.

Lucas, Thomas A. "Men Were Too Fiery for Much Talk: The Grinnell Anti-Abolitionist Riot of 1860." Palimpsest 68 (Spring 1987): 12-21.

Mills, George. "The Crusade of John Brown." Annals of Iowa 35 (1959): 101-11.

"The Underground Railroad in Iowa" Iowa Journal of History and Politics 22 (1924): 418-453.

Williams, Mary Randall. "On to Harper's Ferry with John Brown." Iowan 7 (August – September 1959):  8-12, 50-51.

Iowa and Iowans in the Civil War

Books

Byers, S.H.M. Iowa in War Times.  Des Moines, Iowa: W.D. Condit & Co., 1888.

Campbell, John Quincy Adams and Mark Grimsley and Todd D. Miller. The Union Must Stand: the Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.

Dykstra, Robert R. Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Kantor, MacKinlay.  Andersonville.  1955.  Various editions.

Leonard, Elizabeth D. Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War.  New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1994.

Love and Valor: the intimate Civil War letters between Captain Jacob and Emeline Ritner.  Western Spring, IL:  Sigourney Press, 2000.

Lyftogt, Kenneth L. From Blue Mills to Columbia: Cedar Falls and the Civil War.  Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993.

Musser, Charles O. Soldier Boy: the Civil War letters of Charles O. Musser, 29th Iowa.  Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995.

Shearer, Silas I. Dear Companion: the Civil War letters of Silas I. Shearer.  Ames, Iowa:  H.D. Brinkman, 1995.

Wubben, Hubert H. Civil War Iowa and the Copperhead Movement.  Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1980.

Periodical Articles

Ham, Sharon. "End of Innocence." Palimpsest 60 (1979), 76-97.

McDevitt, Theresa. "'A Melody Before Unknown': The Civil War Experiences of Mary and Amanda Shelton." Annals of Iowa 63 (2004): 105-136.

Nelson, Julie E., and Alan M. Schroder. "Iowa and the Civil War: A Military Review." Palimpsest 63 (1982): 98-105.

Throne, Mildred. "Iowans and the Civil War." Palimpsest 40 (1959): 369-448.

Indices of the Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Annals of Iowa, Iowan, and Iowa History Illustrated (previously called Palimpsest) cite numerous articles related to John Brown, Abolitionism, the Underground Railroad, and the Civil War.

Other Books by Marilynne Robinson:

The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Housekeeping.  New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980.

Mother Country.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989.

If you liked Gilead try:

Bernanos, Georges; Pamela Morris. The Diary of a Country Priest.  New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937.

Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop.  1927.  Various editions.

Crace, Jim. Quarantine.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.  1974.  Various editions.

Haruf, Kent. Plainsong.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

Maxwell, William. So Long, See You Tomorrow.  New York: Knopf, 1980.

McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses.  New York: Knopf, 1992.

Styron, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner.  New York: Random House, 1967.

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