Celebrations across the country marked Juneteenth, the day when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that ...

New York's Statue of Liberty is well known as a symbol of refuge for immigrants, but the statue's original design stood for ...

In one fateful night, John Brown brought the country closer to Civil War (Video: Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Day ...

Glenn: Now the raid occurred not long after John Brown's Harpers Ferry takeover. He was found guilty, hanged and from your account he was an associate of Tubman’s, and that whole incident played ...

They had come to Harpers Ferry to make war on slavery. The raid that Sunday night would be the most daring instance on record of white men entering a Southern state to incite a slave rebellion.

was removed from a page on the website of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia. “John Brown’s complex legacy remains a powerful symbol in America’s ongoing dialogue on ...

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park ... it was the site of abolitionist John Brown’s 1859 raid on the federal arsenal to initiate a revolt against slavery and where 13,000 Union troops ...

The "Civil War Showcase" in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, offers an immersive experience of the Civil War era. Visitors are greeted at a replica of John Brown's engine house and can explore ...

Pawlak, authors of the recently published book on John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry. Everyone gets an entrée for dinner. Options are pork tenderloin with apricot glaze, and chicken marsala.