Ahead of the college football Border War as the Kansas Jayhawks take on the Missouri Tigers this weekend, the former is ...

John Brown was not content with speeches, petitions, or polite reform. He believed slavery was a crime so extreme that only force could end it. His meeting with Frederick Douglass exposed a plan that ...

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 ...

John Brown, a prominent Providence merchant, initially gained wealth through trade before the American Revolution. During the war, Brown invested in privateers, which were privately-owned ships ...

“Cloudsplitter: A Novel,” by Russell Banks, is a 750-page missive that tells the story of John Brown’s lifelong fight against slavery through his son, Owen’s, eyes. The author lived in Keene, New York ...

Sandra Weber’s important “John Brown in New York” “focuses on the home front (rather than battlefields) and provides a new perspective on John Brown’s inner self, moral fiber and principles.” The very ...