It is said that John Brown was the spark that started the Civil War. Truly, he marked the end of compromise over the issue of slavery, and it was not long after his death that John Brown's war ...
John Brown's obsession with ending slavery cast him as an abolitionist hero. In 1856, provoked by a bloody attack on Kansas settlers by “border ruffians,” Brown led a raid at Pottawatomie ...
Ask one how he or she feels about John Brown and you’ll see the other start to squirm, waiting to voice an opinion. “That is the set-up for an outstanding tour,” he says. “That is the Civil War right ...
The grave of Owen Brown, who like his father John Brown struggled all his life to end slavery, was named an L.A. County landmark this month. The gravesite in Altadena honors of the son of one of the ...
Gordon Brown and Sir John Major want a new international tribunal ... for a legal system modelled on the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals after World War Two. The International Criminal ...