The Keedysville Historical Society will host a presentation on the 1859 John Brown raid on Harper's Ferry. The event will take place at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, 53 N. Main St., ...

"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 ...

NMAH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. In this book the author tells the tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war. Plotted in secret, launched in the ...

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.

AKRON, Ohio – The Akron Zoo is hosting a rededication for the John Brown Monument on Sept. 28. The German-American Alliance built the monument to honor the late abolitionist in 1910 in a wooded area ...