A just-released book about Harpers Ferry's rich history relates how a Black family during the Jim Crow era made their mark in ...

It is commonly said that John Brown tried to incite the slaves to rebel, but blacks did not join him. That is not true. What really happened is more complicated, more inclusive of black participation, ...

Oct. 10—Experience John Brown's Raid through the stories of U.S. Marines, townspeople, formerly enslaved men and women and John Brown himself on Oct. 15 and 16 at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Join ...

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. His ...

HARPER’S FERRY, W. Va. (WCSC) - The raid on Harpers Ferry, an attempt to ignite a slave rebellion that would have a heavy hand in launching the Civil War kicked off 166 years ago. Abolitionist John ...

Harpers Ferry, W.Va. -- He lost the battle, but started the war. Here, in tiny Harpers Ferry, radical abolitionist John Brown made his last stand against slavery and paid for it with his life. Sixteen ...

Brown's doings in Northeast Ohio have been well documented. The passages concerning his activities in Akron, Cleveland, Hudson and Oberlin fascinate. Horwitz characterized mid-19th century northeast ...

As statues to Confederate heroes are torn down around the country, the question of whom to honor in their place poses an intriguing challenge — one that writer-director Mark Amin seems to have ...

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. His ...

User-Created Clip by mcgorry October 13, 2017 2016-02-13T18:29:29-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/271/20160213183037003_hd.jpgDennis Frye talked about the raid ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Karen Sherry, curator at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond explained the events that took place at Harpers Ferry in 1859. She ...