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 ...

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 ...

Revered by some as a freedom fighter and reviled by others as a fanatic, John Brown is one of the most polarizing figures in ...

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 ...

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 ...