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.

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.