John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800. He would spend the next fifty-nine years moving about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and traveling ...

Sandra Weber, shares how she came to author "John Brown in New York" amidst research into women of the Adirondacks.

On the road to Lake Placid, New York you’ll start to see historical signs making where the pre-Civil War abolitionist John Brown had some connection to. In the history books, Brown is most associated ...

ANAHEIM HILLS, Calif. — The garage door to the Orange County townhome would slide open around the same time each weekday afternoon. A middle-aged dad would then accompany his three sons outside and ...

The spears that John Brown ordered for his abolitionist army were fearsome, primitive things. Nearly seven feet long, the pikes had 10-inch steel blades made for slashing and impaling those who ...

John Brown's violent campaign against slavery -- punctuated by the dramatic 1859 raid at Harper's Ferry, Va. -- made him a divisive figure, then and now. He's been portrayed as an insane fanatic and ...

A Stained Glass Christmas, from Chartres to Baltimore’s Gilded Age Strengthening the Military Chaplain Corps Is a Win for Religious Liberty The Lessons of Wild Reeds Even Darkness Must Pass ...

KSHB 41 reporter Ryan Gamboa covers Miami County in Kansas and Cass County in Missouri. He also covers agricultural topics. Share your story idea with Ryan. Since 1966, the John Brown Jamboree has ...

Much has been written in recent weeks about Rhode Island’s dominant role in the transatlantic slave trade. Most articles mention “slave traders that included the prominent Brown and DeWolf families” ...

John V. Brown, Jr., leader of the John Brown Quintet and double bass player, is a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina. He is a graduate of the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at ...

In May 1863, the soldiers of the African-American 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry sang “John Brown’s Body” as they paraded down Boston’s State Street, witnessed by the multiracial throng ...

THE story of John Brown 1 is distinguished among the few narratives of modern history which accumulate additional interest with the lapse of time. Many a man, who has played a great part in human ...