click image for close-up This photograph of John Brown was taken in 1856 while ... become the most renowned individual living in "Bleeding Kansas." ...

The bill proposed organizing the Nebraska territory, which also included an area that would become the state of Kansas ... the fiery abolitionist John Brown led a group of men on an attack ...

Drawing on both new and neglected evidence, this book reconstructs Old John Brown’s aborted ... crime at Pottawatomie Creek in “Bleeding Kansas” as well as how the Harpers Ferry raid figured into ...

The infamous John Brown led an anti-slavery force of around ... “It was part of an epic story known as Bleeding Kansas. “Amusing, insightful sayings, such as ‘I went to take Old Brown ...

In many ways it is the same battle people of conscience have always fought, from since at least the time of Bleeding Kansas. Just because the battle is long does not mean it isn’t worth fighting.

In the 1850s, America witnessed prophetic killing at John Brown’s raid or Bleeding Kansas, but it was the election of 1860 ...

During the height of the Civil Rights Movement and living in a post-Brown v. Board of Education world, Bridges was among more ...

One flight up from a bronze plaque recalling the location of an 1850s abolitionist newspaper and not far from a plaque marking where John Brown ... is a proud Bleeding Kansas history,” said ...

Ruby Bridges, a civil rights icon known for walking among the first group of students to desegregate New Orleans public ...

An officer with Albany Police made contact with John ... she was bleeding profusely.” The officer said in the report that he saw large amounts of blood all around the property and a brown ...

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 ...