Their leader was a rail-thin 59-year-old man with a shock of graying hair and penetrating steel-gray eyes. His name was John Brown. Some of those who strode across a covered railway bridge from ...

John Richard Steele, born in Waukegan, IL, April 30, 1926 passed away peacefully February 15, 2016 in Brown Deer, WI in the presence of his beloved daughter Joan VanLieshout and son-in-law ...

In his masterful book “John Brown, Abolitionist ... these writers had imagined but rarely practiced. Indeed, Brown’s exploits put steel into these writers’ abolitionist spines.

DARGAN, Maryland -- The spears that John Brown ordered for his abolitionist army were fearsome, primitive things. Nearly seven feet long, the pikes had 10-inch steel blades made for slashing and ...

The scheme struck him as dangerously impractical and risky—“a steel-trap.” In the years since 1859, John Brown and his raid have become a touchstone in America’s struggle to reconcile—or ...

John William Steel, aged 73 years, passed into the hands of his Savior Jesus Christ at Syracuse VA hospital on November 8th, 2024. He is finally at peace after years of suffering from the effects ...

John Brown commemorated with a statue in the Quindaro neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas. Abolitionist John Brown wasn't born in Kansas, but made his mark during the Bleeding Kansas era before ...

Each June, in the small town of Osawatomie, Kansas, local residents hold a pageant to select a high school girl to be the new "John Brown Queen." The unlikely namesake of this pageant was ...