Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War
A doomed plan with a momentous legacy.
Meredith Hindley
Meredith Hindley is a historian living in Washington, D.C. She is a senior writer for Humanities, the magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and her work also appears in Salon, Lapham’s Quarterly, and the New York Times.