The secret marriage of Queen Victoria and John Brown is not so far-fetched, as several clues indicate its possibility. The ...

March 1, 1857 - John Brown meets with Charles Blair, a blacksmith, regarding the manufacturing of "pikes," or spear-like points, which could be mounted on poles about six feet long. 12. Concord, Mass ...

John Brown was "Isaac Smith," a cattle buyer from New York. But in the attic of Kennedy farm, Brown's army was hiding, waiting for the leader to finalize his plans. Some waited for three months.

Steve Brown figured he’d climbed about as high as he could at John Hancock when the insurer’s chief executive approached him ...

When John Brown met his executioner on December 2, 1859, some 2,000 local militiamen surrounded him, poised to thwart any rescue attempts. One witness that day was John Wilkes Booth, who stood near ...

The song, "John Brown's Body," actually belonged to a young Scotsman in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia who shared the famous abolitionist's name.

John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights By David S. Reynolds Knopf, 578 pages, $35 In May 1863, the soldiers of the African-American ...

Of the day following John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859 — now understood by scholars and schoolchildren alike to be one of the precipitating events of the ...

This is Part III of a three-part series about John Brown, a former Cincinnati high school basketballphenomwho played few documented games, but whose inner-city legend continues to grow for his ...

John Brown, condemned to death, was to be hanged the 2d of December, (this very day.) Hugo said that "from the political point of view the murder of John Brown would be an irremediable mistake.

John Brown was a radical white abolitionist who led a predawn raid of 21 fighters on Oct. 17, 1859, on Harpers Ferry, Va., that included capturing prominent citizens and seizing a federal armory ...

And John's father Owen was a tanner. So there was a small stream on the property, which provided enough water for John Brown's father to establish that tannery up there.