Each June, in the small town of Osawatomie, Kansas, local residents hold a pageant to select a high school girl to be the new "John Brown Queen." The unlikely namesake of this pageant was ...

The interview was John Brown’s debut in the press. But it wasn’t until the battle of Osawatomie that John Brown, the abolitionist hero, fully emerged. At the end of August, almost three months ...

5. North Elba, New York 1848 - John Brown moves his family to the Adirondacks, living with a small community of freed slaves. It is a beautiful, harsh and remote environment. 6. Osawatomie ...