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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

That John Brown was wrong in his attempt to break up slavery by violence, few will deny. But it was a wrong committed by a good man,— by one who dreaded the vengeance of the Almighty and forgot ...