John Brown was not content with speeches, petitions, or polite reform. He believed slavery was a crime so extreme that only force could end it. His meeting with Frederick Douglass exposed a plan that ...

We all know Kansas as a place. But Tom and I wanted the book to be about Kansas as feeling, Kansas as meaning.

Poetry events kicked up after a slight respite for the holidays. I attended the Blue Whale Reading two weeks ago, featuring ...

Cloudsplitter: A Novel,” by Russell Banks, is a 750-page missive that tells the story of John Brown’s lifelong fight against slavery through his son, Owen’s, eyes. The author lived in Keene, New York, ...

The former Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner recently returned to the U.S. after three decades in Asia. A collection of his ...

For over a century, rumors about Queen Victoria's affair with her servant John Brown have persisted. Now a historian says she has proof. A portrait of Queen Victoria taken in honor of her Diamond ...

PLATTSBURGH — When Mary Ann Day Brown arrived in Red Bluff, California, on Sept. 30, 1864, the widow left behind her abolitionist-martyr husband’s remains in a four-year-old grave in North Elba. The ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — One man is being credited for “blowing the case wide open” when it came down to finding the gunman in the deadly Brown University shooting. “John,” who police have not ...

Homewood-Flossmoor’s John Brown IV upends all of the typical presuppositions. The 6-foot-6 sophomore forward might be the tallest player for the Vikings, but it doesn’t mean that he’s simply content ...

An error has occurred. Please try again. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active ...