Many historians now point to that bloody night on Pottawatomie Creek as the first shots of what would become the American ...

John Brown's obsession with ending slavery cast him as an abolitionist hero. In 1856, provoked by a bloody attack on Kansas settlers by “border ruffians,” Brown led a raid at Pottawatomie ...

It was tough to really appreciate John Brown’s Truth, though, because it didn’t seem particularly concerned with the truth about John Brown. Pottawatomie Creek, where Brown presided as five ...