John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry ...

But Thoreau decided that Brown was literally Jesus—or at least that Jesus and John Brown were “two ends of a chain which I rejoice to know is not without its links.” In “A Plea for John ...

John Brown was an American abolitionist leader who fought for the equality of all races. He helped countless slaves reach freedom in his lifelong pursuit of equality but his use of violence as a ...

Amon-Ra St. Brown is perhaps one of the most interesting men in the NFL. Apart from his highlight worthy plays for the crowd ...

The gravesite of Owen Brown, son of abolitionist John Brown, for more than a century a place of pilgrimage for abolitionists and a monument to the Civil War, appears to have been spared by the ...

Brown, John “J.O.”, Beloved husband of Joyce Carbone Brown, father of Judy (Steve) Swanson, Fred Brown, Carol (Jerry) Thompson, Joseph Brown (Deceased), Jackie (Bruce) Meyer, and Tony Brown.

John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800. He would spend the next fifty-nine years moving about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and ...

Did genre painting exist in the early twentieth century? This question forms the premise of John Fagg’s Re-envisioning the Everyday: American Genre Scenes, 1905–1945.

John Clifford Brown died peacefully after suffering a stroke and having complications from a subsequent infection in Bloomington, IN on December 21, 2024. Clifford was a singularly bright star ...

John George Brown, born in 1831 in Durham, England, was an American artist known for his genre scenes depicting street urchins in New York. He studied at the School of Design, Newcastle-on-Tyne and ...