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 ...