The Augusta Coliseum Authority is holding its monthly board meeting at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, and the family of James Brown says they want to make their voices heard.

John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?

They spoke about Brown’s legacy in the region and what to expect at this year’s installment of John Brown Day. Their conversation has been edited for space and clarity.

“Has John Brown no message — no legacy, then, to the twentieth century?” asks Du Bois. “He has and it is this great word: the cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

John Brown and many of his followers holed up in the fire engine house awaiting reinforcements by a swarm of "bees"—slaves from the surrounding area. But only a handful showed up. Library of ...

Abolitionist John Brown wasn't born in Kansas, but made his mark during the Bleeding Kansas era before the Civil War. Today, 165 years after his execution, Brown's violent acts and influence are ...

Pro-legacy students at Brown cite familial connection and pride as reasons to keep the policy around at Brown.

BBC racing commentator John Hunt, whose wife and two of his daughters were murdered last July, describes in an emotional first interview the legacy of love they left behind. It was this, John and his ...

In those febrile years, Brown and many others took up arms; 18 months later the country plunged into a long, bloody civil war. What, to America, is John Brown?

In this episode of History As It Happens, historian David S. Reynolds discusses the moral dilemma presented by the legacy of John Brown, a righteous, radical abolitionist who committed murder and ...

John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry ...

Just off Lawrence Avenue, in an area north of Holcom Sports Complex, one building stands out from the mostly residential neighborhood — a two-story limestone barn that was built before Kansas ...