John Brown Song Credits:

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following institutions and individuals for the use of images from their collections:

Chicago Historical Society

Edwin Jackson, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia

Eric F. Long

The Granger Collection, New York

Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, Historic Photo Collection

Kansas State Historical Society/Kansas Museum of History

Library Company of Philadelphia

Library of Congress

Louisiana Digital Library

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

National Archives and Records Administration

National Park Service

New York Historical Society

New York Public Library

New York State Archives

Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association

University of Virginia Library, Special Collections Department

Virginia Commonwealth University Special Collections and Archives

Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries

Virginia Tech University Libraries

Western Reserve Historical Society

About the Scholar
Chandra Manning graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1993, University College Galway in 1995, and earned the Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 2002. Her dissertation won the C. Vann Woodward prize, awarded by the Southern Historical Association for best dissertation on any aspect of southern history. She served as a lecturer at Harvard University from 2002 to 2003, and as Assistant Professor of History at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington from 2003 to 2005. Her work focuses on 19th century United States History, with particular interest in sectionalism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Currently, she is completing a manuscript on Civil War soldiers' views of the causes of the war, while working on a volume about Wisconsin in the Civil War and a book about Civil War soldiers' camp newspapers. She is also interested in the history of baseball.