Oct. 10—Experience John Brown's Raid through the stories of U.S. Marines, townspeople, formerly enslaved men and women and John Brown himself on Oct. 15 and 16 at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Join ...

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park will host a free public event at 1 p.m. Saturday to commemorate John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, W.Va. Fred Morsell will re-enact Frederick Douglass' address ...

HARPERS FERRY, W.Va.— Almost a 165 years ago, Abolitionist Leader John Brown raided the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry to make a stand against slavery and the “Voices of Harpers Ferry: Generations ...

Harper's Weekly Illustration of U.S. Marines attacking the firehouse which John Brown used as a fort during his raid on Harper's Ferry. PD By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans. His ...

Many say the first battle of the Civil War was in South Carolina at Fort Sumter in April of 1861. But two years earlier — in what was then Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a rebellion led by 59-year-old John ...

"When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he envisioned a biblical uprising of millions of armed bondsmen, thus ridding the nation ...

“Hiving The Bees” is the first episode of The Good Lord Bird that really feels like an episode of TV show, which I mean strictly as a compliment—it’s a lot of fun, both because it actually has ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown and his team launched a raid on a federal armory located in Harpers Ferry which was located in the state ...

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