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

John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave… Eventually all reference to John Brown were washed from the lyrics as the tune morphed into the Battle Hymn of the Republic, the North’s anthem of the ...

John V. Brown, Jr., leader of the John Brown Quintet and double bass player, is a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina. He is a graduate of the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at ...

May 09, 2025 — A statue of John Brown, the abolitionist and insurrectionist, sits alongside his grave at the John Brown Farm Historic Site outside Lake Placid. Photo by David Escobar.

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 ...

Wednesday marked the 150 th anniversary of the execution of John Brown for the failed raid he led on the US Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Although his action was doomed to defeat ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War’ by Tony Horwitz Henry Holt, 384 pp., $29 Write about John Brown and you confront the march of time.

Brown's time in Jacksonville was uneventful, with the veteran wideout playing just seven snaps over the last two weeks -- three in Week 11 and four in Week 12. Brown saw an early-game target in ...

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

The John Brown story ends with his death in 1803. Forty years after its founding, the college was renamed Brown University to honor Nicholas Brown Jr., an ardent opponent of the slave trade.