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The Magnet and the Iron: John Brown and George L. Stearns The Stories Behind the Busts

Bibliography & Resources

Selected Bibliography

Brooks, Charles. History of the Town of Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement in 1630 to 1855. Edited by James M. Usher. Boston: Rand, Avery and Co., 1886.

Buick, Kirsten Pai. Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010.

City Council of Boston. Exercises at the Dedication of the Monument to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, May 31, 1897. Boston: Municipal Printing Office, 1897.

DeCaro, Louis A. John Brown: The Cost of Freedom. New York: International Publishers, 2007.

Edgers, Geoff. “Finding John Brown.” Tufts Magazine, Fall 2016.

Heller, Charles E. Portrait of an Abolitionist: A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809–1867. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Johnson, Samuel. “George L. Stearns.” The Radical II (June 1867): 611–21.

Kantrowitz, Stephen David. More than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829–1889. New York: Penguin Press, 2012.

Lewis, Edmonia, Timothy Anglin Burgard, and Fogg Art Museum. Edmonia Lewis and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Images and Identities : Fogg Art Museum, 18 February–3 May 1995. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.

Miller, Russell E. Light on the Hill. Boston: Beacon Press, 1966.

Stearns, Frank Preston. The Life and Public Services of George Luther Stearns. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1907.

Stearns, Mary E. “Last Will and Testament.” Probate, December 1901. File 57312. Middlesex County Court House, Cambridge, MA.

Von Holst, Hermann. John Brown. Edited by Frank Preston Stearns. Boston: Cupples and Hurd, 1888.

Williams, George Washington. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2. New York City: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1885.


Recommended Resources

Books & Articles

Bidgood, Jess. “A Mysterious Noseless Bust at Tufts Gets Back Its Name: John Brown.” The New York Times, October 31, 2016.

DeCaro, Louis A. John Brown: The Cost of Freedom. New York: International Publishers, 2007.

Edgers, Geoff. “Finding John Brown.” Tufts Magazine, Fall 2016.

Edgers, Geoff. “Finding John Brown.” Tufts Now, November 1, 2016.

Heller, Charles E. Portrait of an Abolitionist: A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809–1867. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Kantrowitz, Stephen David. More than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829–1889. New York: Penguin Press, 2012.

Stearns, Frank Preston. The Life and Public Services of George Luther Stearns. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1907.

Von Holst, Hermann. John Brown. Edited by Frank Preston Stearns. Boston: Cupples and Hurd, 1888.


Online Exhibits and Collections

54th Regiment. Massachusetts Historical Society. 2013.

Antislavery in Concord. Concord Free Public Library, 2013.

Boston’s Crusade Against Slavery. Houghton Library at Harvard University.

Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History. Tufts Digital Library. 200. Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts University.

"His Soul Goes Marching On": The Life and Legacy of John Brown. West Virginia Archives and History. 2015.

Images of the Antislavery Movement in Massachusetts. Massachusetts Historical Society.

John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Collection of the West Virginia Memory Project. West Virginia Division of Culture and History

John Brown Trial (1859). Famous Trials.

Medford History. Medford Historical Society & Museum.


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