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.