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.

In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va. He was later convicted of treason and hanged. In 1875, Brigham Young University was founded in Provo ...

In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry in what was then a part of western Virginia. (Ten of Brown’s men were killed and five escaped.

It starts at Lockwood House, which overlooks what was Harper Cemetery. Originally built in 1848 as housing for the armory ...

In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown went on trial in Charles Town, Virginia, for his failed raid at Harpers Ferry. (He was convicted and later hanged.) In 1962, during a meeting of the U.N ...

MPI / Getty Images This week marks the 165th anniversary of John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry (in what is now West Virginia) in October 1859. The deeply religious Brown was an ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown and his team launched a raid on a federal armory located in Harpers Ferry which was located in the ...

With another annual UN Conference of the Parties (COP) on climate change starting again next week, it is worth accessing the ...

It was here that they met John Brown as he passed through in early 1859, transporting people who had been enslaved in Missouri to freedom. That summer, the two boys bade their mother goodbye, despite ...

In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va. He was later convicted of treason ...

Vicious partisan attacks against a former, and possibly future, president violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice.