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What to America is John Brown?
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoCapture of John Brown in the engine house The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images On December 2, 1859, the United States saw its first execution...
John Brown was a violent crusader, but he blazed a moral path that the cautious Lincoln followed to...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 months agoPresident Lincoln was a statesman. John Brown was a radical. That’s the traditional view of how each...
Davis: My granddad, and how he put the hero John Brown on my mind
The Fayetteville Observer via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI grew up on Fort Bragg, but I was born in small-town Albemarle. While my military community was...
Why Malcolm X said white people should be like abolitionist John Brown
theGrio via AOL· 1 year agoOPINION: To commemorate the civil rights leader's birthday, we looked back at what Malcolm X had to...
John Brown’s place in history honored on anniversary of his death
WDVM via Yahoo News· 6 months agoSHARPSBURG, Md. (DC News Now) — It was more than a century and a half ago, but a raid on an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, W.Va. led to the end of slavery in the United States. John Brown was executed ...
Wilhelm: Abolitionist's family retreated to Put-in-Bay
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMost of us are familiar with the name John Brown, the famous abolitionist who believed in using violence to bring an end to slavery in America. He openly fought for slaves' freedom even before ...
Op-Ed: American history is a parade of horrors — and also heroes
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJohn Brown, an evangelical militia leader who was hanged for trying to arm enslaved people for an...
Attend the grand reopening of the John Brown House May 9
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Summit County Historical Society will celebrate the grand reopening of the John Brown House on...
How visiting the scene of our country's most divisive time gave me hope for today's crisis
Kitsap Sun via Yahoo News· 11 months agoConsidering the nation’s increasing political divisiveness, I decided it was a good summer to expose my children to a time in history when our country was more divided than it is today. So our ...
Once more into the breach
Kansas City Star McClatchy Articles via AOL· 1 year agoThe last time it took more than 10 votes to elect a Speaker of the U.S. House was 1859. James Buchanan was president. The border war was going on in the...