Historian Roger Swartz will explore rescue efforts after John Brown’s 1859 raid at a free Keedysville Historical Society ...

OurStoryBridge brings more tales of the Adirondacks, this week with a story from a descendent of an ally to John Brown.

With its preserved buildings and exhibits, Harpers Ferry National Historic Site tells the story of abolitionist John Brown’s 1859 raid on the federal armory here. He was after weapons to arm enslaved ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - On this date in 1859, John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, WV, began. It ended up being a failed attempt by abolitionists to start a nationwide slave uprising by seizing the ...

Abolitionist John Brown and his armed followers snuck into the town of Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, which is now West Virginia, as most of its residents slept. They took around 60 local people as ...

It was 1859. The analogies to the current state of American politics are not precise and even paradoxical. To begin with, John Brown, though crazy and bloodthirsty, was on the right side of history.