It is commonly said that John Brown tried to incite the slaves to rebel, but blacks did not join him. That is not true. What really happened is more complicated, more inclusive of black participation, ...

When we hear mention of Harpers Ferry, John Brown’s raid to create a slave rebellion typically comes to mind. But Harpers ...

Harper's Weekly Illustration of U.S. Marines attacking the firehouse which John Brown used as a fort during his raid on Harper's Ferry. PD By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans. His ...

User-Created Clip by mcgorry October 13, 2017 2016-02-13T18:29:29-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/271/20160213183037003_hd.jpgDennis Frye talked about the raid ...

Harpers Ferry, W.Va. -- He lost the battle, but started the war. Here, in tiny Harpers Ferry, radical abolitionist John Brown made his last stand against slavery and paid for it with his life. Sixteen ...

The abolitionist’s bloody raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry 150 years ago set the stage for the Civil War Fergus M. Bordewich John Brown and many of his followers holed up in the fire engine ...

A just-released book about Harpers Ferry's rich history relates how a Black family during the Jim Crow era made their mark in ...

Brown's doings in Northeast Ohio have been well documented. The passages concerning his activities in Akron, Cleveland, Hudson and Oberlin fascinate. Horwitz characterized mid-19th century northeast ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Karen Sherry, curator at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond explained the events that took place at Harpers Ferry in 1859. She ...

Oct. 10—Experience John Brown's Raid through the stories of U.S. Marines, townspeople, formerly enslaved men and women and John Brown himself on Oct. 15 and 16 at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Join ...