John Brown’s Holy War” will screen at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Adirondack History Museum Film Series. Admission is free. This is a documentary that explores the life, ideology and crusade of ...

RICHMOND TOWNSHIP — John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave, according to the old folk song popularized during the Civil War, but for most early 21st-century Americans, it’s more ...

ELIZABETHTOWN — “John Brown’s Holy War” will screen at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Adirondack History Museum Film Series. Admission is free.

Radical abolitionist John Brown (1800–1859) fought and died for the emancipation of enslaved people. His life as an antislavery advocate and armed insurrectionist who was tried, convicted, and hanged ...

Matthew Weiner’s world premiere “John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only!” at Baltimore Center Stage finds an actor turned assassin in conversation with himself.

He was executed in 1859 in Virginia, but his body was buried at his Adirondack home, now the John Brown Farm State Historic Site just outside the village of Lake Placid.

The barn that sheltered John Brown and former slaves gets a boost from Lawrence’s new Parks, Recreation and Culture plan News Mar 28, 2025 - 4:11pm ...

Abolitionist John Brown wasn't born in Kansas, but made his mark during the Bleeding Kansas era before the Civil War. Today, 165 years after his execution, Brown's violent acts and influence are ...

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.

As the years went by, Brown was also involved in publishing and speaking publicly against slavery. In 1859, Brown conceived a plan.

Capture of John Brown in the engine house, Harpers Ferry, Virginia, USA, 1859 (c1880). Brown (1800-1859) believed that armed insurrection was the only way to end slavery in the United States.