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.

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 Brown is one of the most polarizing figures in American history. But it was an experience in his youth that seared an ...

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 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 ...