He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his ... The raid ultimately hastened the advent of the Civil War.

While there were many battles during the Civil War at Harpers Ferry, the most famous came just ... building during the Civil War, is the site where American Civil Rights leader Fredrick Douglas ...

The city has marked the Battle of Nashville for decades. Now, a new effort is underway to preserve Fort Negley.

As Civil War sites continue to mark 150 years since America’s most important conflict, Harpers Ferry, Antietam ... I live within an hour’s drive from a handful of Civil War battlefields, the last time ...

Students watch an excerpt from the episode John Brown Pike, in which they learn about abolitionist John Brown and his 1859 attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. They then ...

With both narrative verve and a telling eye for the dramatic, he has also given us an intimate portrait of the competing worlds of slavery and abolitionist activism on the cusp of the Civil War. The ...

As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of a number of historical events. It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s ...

In one fateful night, John Brown brought the country closer to Civil War (Video: Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Day ...