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John Brown is cornered at Harpers Ferry and Robert E Lee's army rushes the armory doors. He died to make men holy, let us die ...
Tulsa Police Det. John Brown passed away this week after a courageous battle with cancer. His funeral was held Saturday ...
Family, friends and Tulsa Police officers are remembering longtime Tulsa Homicide Detective John Brown who passed away this ...
Detective John Brown, a Medal of Valor recipient and longtime figure on ‘First 48,’ dies after battling cancer.
Tulsa Police Department confirmed detective and sergeant John Brown died Aug. 3 in hospice care after a brief battle with ...
Capture of John Brown in the engine house, Harpers Ferry, Virginia, USA, 1859 (c1880). Brown (1800-1859) believed that armed insurrection was the only way to end slavery in the United States.
Of the day following John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859 — now understood by scholars and schoolchildren alike to be one of the precipitating events of the ...
John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave… Eventually all reference to John Brown were washed from the lyrics as the tune morphed into the Battle Hymn of the Republic, the North’s anthem of the ...
John Brown's violent campaign against slavery — punctuated by the dramatic 1859 raid at Harper's Ferry, Va. — made him a divisive figure, then and now.
Last Sunday was the 163rd anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, which for me was an excuse to flip through W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1909 biography of Brown for the first time in years.