John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry ...

BOSTON, Monday, Dec. 3. The programme for celebrating the death of JOHN BROWN included forenoon, afternoon and evening sessions, in the Tremont Temple, to which the public were invited.

Last Sunday was the 163rd anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, which for me was an excuse to flip through W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1909 biography of Brown for the first time in years.

John Brown and many of his followers holed up in the fire engine house awaiting reinforcements by a swarm of "bees"—slaves from the surrounding area. But only a handful showed up. Library of ...

MARTHA SWAN: John Brown, first of all, was a white man, and a lot of people are surprised to learn that a white man sacrificed his life, dedicated his entire adult life, ...

Abolitionist John Brown wasn't born in Kansas, but made his mark during the Bleeding Kansas era before the Civil War. Today, 165 years after his execution, Brown's violent acts and influence are ...