Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is most widely known today for the attempted slave revolt led by John Brown in 1859, the nucleus for the interpretation o

Focusing on the day-to-day operations of the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, from 1798 to 1861, this book shows what the "new technology" of mechanized

A history of home-grown American radicalism in the 19th century.

Despised and admired during his life and after his execution, the abolitionist John Brown polarized the nation and remains one of the most controversial figures