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

Capture of John Brown in the engine house, Harpers Ferry, Virginia, USA, 1859 (c1880). Brown (1800-1859) believed that armed insurrection was the only way to end slavery in the United States.

Originally, John Brown’s son Oliver, and seven other of Brown’s men were buried in an unmarked site near Harper’s Ferry. The body of another son, Watson Brown, was used for study in a ...

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 ...

Last Sunday was the 163rd anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, which for me was an excuse to flip through W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1909 biography of Brown for the first time in years.

Of the day following John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859 — now understood by scholars and schoolchildren alike to be one of the precipitating events of the ...

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 ...

John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights By David S. Reynolds Knopf, 578 pages, $35 In May 1863, the soldiers of the African-American ...

John Brown's violent campaign against slavery — punctuated by the dramatic 1859 raid at Harper's Ferry, Va. — made him a divisive figure, then and now.

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.