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John Brown’s Holy War
Digital History ID 4235

This website provides additional resources for the PBS special on John Brown. Martyr, madman, murderer, hero: John Brown remains one of history's most controversial and misunderstood figures. In the 1850s, he and his ragtag guerrilla group embarked on a righteous crusade against slavery that was based on religious faith -- yet carried out with shocking violence. His execution set off a chain of events that led to the Civil War.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/

Abolition
Digital History ID 4234

This Library of Congress exhibit includes antislavery petitions, songs, children’s magazines, and other original sources documenting the struggle to abolish slavery.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html

The West
Digital History ID 4236

Thhis website features many primary source material on the American West, including many memoirs, journals, diaries, letters, and autobiographies.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/index.htm