Most historians concentrate on the social and historical events caused by the 1859 raid of abolitionist John Brown and his ...

John Brown's obsession with ending slavery cast him as an abolitionist hero. In 1856, provoked by a bloody attack on Kansas settlers by “border ruffians,” Brown led a raid at Pottawatomie ...

A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War. Thoreau’s deification of John Brown should be a reminder of the perils of glorifying political violence in the name of any ideal. John Brown ...

In the first episode on Frederick Douglass, we explored his escape from enslavement and the beginnings of his career. Now, we pick up with him as the Civil War brews, at the time of John Brown's Raid ...

John Brown is determined to build an army, and when he tells Frederick Douglass, he makes it clear—abolishing slavery will require violence. His conviction sets him on a path that will lead directly ...

son of abolitionist John Brown, for more than a century a place of pilgrimage for abolitionists and a monument to the Civil War, appears to have been spared by the Eaton Fire. AJ Lester of the Los ...

It is said that John Brown was the spark that started the Civil War. Truly, he marked the end of compromise over the issue of slavery, and it was not long after his death that John Brown's war ...