John Brown and many of his followers holed up in the fire engine house awaiting reinforcements by a swarm of "bees"—slaves from the surrounding area. But only a handful showed up. Library of ...

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

John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry ...

On Dec. 2, 1859, the Commonwealth of Virginia executed John Brown. Brown had been convicted of multiple murders, treason against Virginia, and inciting a slave revolt in relation to his raid on an ...

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 ...

Kerry Altenbernd, a John Brown-portrayer and president of the Guardians of Grover Barn, hopes to realize a goal to fully preserve the structure which was a stop on the Underground Railroad and ...

* Per the 2022-2023 final release data in IPEDS ‡ The median salary for workers with 10 or more years of experience per Payscale. John Brown University is a private institution in Siloam Springs ...