An etching of John Brown’s funeral appeared in the Dec. 24, 1859 edition of the New York Illustrated News. Image from Wikimedia Commons Joshua Young had a train to catch. Aboard it was his hero, the ...

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 the ...

Abolitionist John Brown and his armed followers snuck into the town of Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, which is now West Virginia, as most of its residents slept. They took around 60 local people as ...

This unflinching biography by illustrator Hendrix (Abe Lincoln Crosses the Creek), his first as author, begins with a lucid summary of the antislavery movement, pre–Civil War politics and Brown's ...