American Pictures Series: Tony Horwitz
The “American Pictures” series at the Smithsonian continued with its second installment when Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, travel writer, and historian Tony Horwitz explored a gripping 1872 portrait of John Brown. The white abolitionist was the subject of Horwitz’s most recent book, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War (2011).
05/07/2012
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