John Brown Farm State Historic Site is hosting a lecture by historian and author Sandra Weber on Sunday, Dec. 7 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the site’s visitor center. This presentation is free and open to ...

John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800. He would spend the next fifty-nine years moving about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and traveling ...

On the road to Lake Placid, New York you’ll start to see historical signs making where the pre-Civil War abolitionist John Brown had some connection to. In the history books, Brown is most associated ...

Richfield preservationist Jim Fry says this house on Ohio 303 is the only house once occupied by John Brown and fully intact today. Fry wants to preserve the house and one owned by a Brown partner and ...

Kerry Altenbernd, a Lawrence-based reenactor, portrays the abolitionist John Brown. (Frank Barthell photo) Brown’s first stop was the farmhouse of settler James Doyle. While his wife Mahalia begged ...

Renowned Lawrence artist Stan Herd is set to create the world’s first earthwork portrait of the infamous abolitionist John Brown. Herd will create the portrait in Osawatomie’s John Brown Memorial Park ...

Much has been written in recent weeks about Rhode Island’s dominant role in the transatlantic slave trade. Most articles mention “slave traders that included the prominent Brown and DeWolf families” ...