To Purge This Land with Blood

To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown

Second edition
Author	Stephen B. Oates
Subject	Biography
Publisher	Harper & Row
Publication date	1970
Pages	434
ISBN	978-0-06-131655-5

To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown is a 1970 biography of abolitionist John Brown by American historian Stephen B. Oates. The biography triggered a reappraisal of Brown, who was subsequently less likely to be dismissed by historians as irrational. ^[1]

References

Notes

1. Hancock 2015

Sources

• Hancock, Scott (2015). "Review of To Raise Up a Nation: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the Making of a Free Country". The Journal of Southern History. 81 (2): 460–462. ISSN   0022-4642.

Commentary and reviews

• "Reservations". The Antioch Review. 30 (2): 266. 1970. ISSN   0003-5769.
• Cardoso, Jack J. (1971). "Review of To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown" . The Journal of American History. 57 (4): 922–923. doi:10.2307/1917809. ISSN   0021-8723.
• Dillon, Merton L. (February 1971). "To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown". The Journal of Southern History. 37 (1): 111. doi:10.2307/2205937.
• Eby, Cecil D. (1971). "Review of To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 79 (2): 213–214. ISSN   0042-6636.
• Edelstein, Tilden (March 1971). "John Brown: The Sword and the Word, and: To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown (review)". Civil War History. 17 (1): 60–62. doi:10.1353/cwh.1971.0024.
• Hancock, Scott (2015). "Review of To Raise Up a Nation: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the Making of a Free Country". The Journal of Southern History. 81 (2): 460–462. ISSN   0022-4642.
• "Twelve Books Of 1970 (Published 1970)". The New York Times. 6 December 1970. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
• Otto, Paul (November 1992). "History as a Humanity: Reading and Literacy in the History Classroom". The History Teacher. 26 (1): 51. doi:10.2307/494085.
• Owsley, F. Lawrence (1970). "Review of To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 29 (4): 410–411. ISSN   0040-3261.
• Rose, Willie Lee (3 December 1970). "Killing for Freedom". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
• Sewell, Richard H. (1971). "Review of George Bourne and The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable; To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown" . The American Historical Review. 76 (2): 549–550. doi:10.2307/1858807. ISSN   0002-8762.
• Smylie, James H. (1972). "Review of To Purge This Land With Blood, A Biography of John Brown". Journal of Presbyterian History. 50 (1): 57–59. ISSN   0022-3883.
• Wyatt-Brown, Bertram (1971). "Review of To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown". The Historian. 33 (4): 694–696. ISSN   0018-2370.