A 33-year-old man fatally injured his frail grandfather before smashing a glass on a customer's head and attacking a bar ...

He is not Old Brown any longer; he is an angel of light." In 1861, Yankee soldiers would march to battle singing: "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on." ...

When Mr. WENDELL PHILLIPS bore, as it were, with pious care, the ashes of Old JOHN BROWN into the wilds of Northern New-York, and shook the hundred-wintered pines with his eloquence, as he laid ...

John Brown is born in Torrington, Connecticut. His father, Owen, a strict Calvinist, hated slavery and believed that holding humans in bondage was a sin against God. 1812 The War of 1812: A 12 ...

John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?

John Brown, the well-known personal attendant of Queen Victoria, died at Windsor Castle yesterday at the age of 56, after passing 34 years in the service of her Majesty and the late Prince Consort.

Trapped in Harpers Ferry, John Brown made his last stand against the U.S. Army. His fight for freedom would change history forever.

See “John Brown in Massachusetts,” in The Atlantic Monthly for April, 1872. At the beginning of the year 1858, nobody in Massachusetts, except here and there a fugitive slave perhaps, had ...

We looked back at what Malcolm X had to say about why he considered John Brown the standard for white allyship.

In those febrile years, Brown and many others took up arms; 18 months later the country plunged into a long, bloody civil war. What, to America, is John Brown?

Last Sunday was the 163rd anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, which for me was an excuse to flip through W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1909 biography of Brown for the first time in years ...