The secret marriage of Queen Victoria and John Brown is not so far-fetched, as several clues indicate its possibility. The ...

Steve Brown figured he’d climbed about as high as he could at John Hancock when the insurer’s chief executive approached him ...

John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave… Eventually all reference to John Brown were washed from the lyrics as the tune morphed into the Battle Hymn of the Republic, the North’s anthem of the ...

May 09, 2025 — A statue of John Brown, the abolitionist and insurrectionist, sits alongside his grave at the John Brown Farm Historic Site outside Lake Placid. Photo by David Escobar.

When John Brown met his executioner on December 2, 1859, some 2,000 local militiamen surrounded him, poised to thwart any rescue attempts. One witness that day was John Wilkes Booth, who stood near ...

Wednesday marked the 150 th anniversary of the execution of John Brown for the failed raid he led on the US Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Although his action was doomed to defeat ...

John V. Brown, Jr., leader of the John Brown Quintet and double bass player, is a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina. He is a graduate of the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at ...

March 1, 1857 - John Brown meets with Charles Blair, a blacksmith, regarding the manufacturing of "pikes," or spear-like points, which could be mounted on poles about six feet long. 12. Concord, Mass ...

John Brown was "Isaac Smith," a cattle buyer from New York. But in the attic of Kennedy farm, Brown's army was hiding, waiting for the leader to finalize his plans. Some waited for three months.

The song, "John Brown's Body," actually belonged to a young Scotsman in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia who shared the famous abolitionist's name.

Brown's time in Jacksonville was uneventful, with the veteran wideout playing just seven snaps over the last two weeks -- three in Week 11 and four in Week 12. Brown saw an early-game target in ...

The John Brown story ends with his death in 1803. Forty years after its founding, the college was renamed Brown University to honor Nicholas Brown Jr., an ardent opponent of the slave trade.