WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — On Dec. 2, 1859, a well-known abolitionist was hanged. John Brown was known for his raid on Harpers Ferry. His advance on the town started on the evening of Oct. 16, 1859, ...
Historian Roger Swartz will explore rescue efforts after John Brown’s 1859 raid at a free Keedysville Historical Society ...
The kerfuffle between the city of Marlboro and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, over the John Brown bell reminds us that the past sometimes doesn’t stay in the past. John Brown was hanged on Dec. 2, 1859 ...
This is the 150th anniversary of the hanging of John Brown. When he attacked Harper’s Ferry with a handful of followers, the butcher of Kansas helped sow the seeds of the Civil War. Few things would ...
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 ...
El Dorado Hills, Ca.: Savas Beatie, 2019. Pp. xvi, 340. Illus., maps, diagr., tables, notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN: 161121436X Petersburg’s Hometown Boys at ...
A Howard University professor has urged lefty “white allies” to be more like an infamous Civil War-era abolitionist who was hanged for murder. Dr. Stacey Patton, a journalism professor, made the ...
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