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

Kerry Altenbernd, a Lawrence-based reenactor, portrays the abolitionist John Brown. (Frank Barthell photo) Brown’s first stop was the farmhouse of settler James Doyle. While his wife Mahalia begged ...

An etching of John Brown’s funeral appeared in the Dec. 24, 1859 edition of the New York Illustrated News. Image from Wikimedia Commons Joshua Young had a train to catch. Aboard it was his hero, the ...

DARGAN, Md. —Just as cold, damp weather couldn't quench Kansas abolitionist John Brown's incendiary fervor, it didn't discourage those determined to follow his footsteps Friday, 150 years after he ...

Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...

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 ...

John Brown commemorated with a statue in the Quindaro neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas. Abolitionist John Brown wasn't born in Kansas, but made his mark during the Bleeding Kansas era before the ...

During the summer of 1859, John Brown rented a farm in Maryland from the heirs of Booth Kennedy. A few miles outside Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), it was a good hiding spot for Brown ...

150 years ago Wednesday, John Brown was executed for crimes against his country. Now the federal government is honoring him with portraits in the National Archive. 150 years ago Wednesday, John Brown ...

This week, The Courant is running excerpts of letters from celebrated and notorious writers that have appeared in the newspaper since its start in 1764. Today’s letters are from the pre-Civil War era.

OPINION: To commemorate the civil rights leader's birthday, we looked back at what Malcolm X had to say about white supremacy and why he considered John Brown the standard for white allyship. At a ...