How ‘Good Lord Bird’ brought Ethan Hawke and its young star to John Brown’s rebellion (L-R): Joshua Caleb Johnson as Onion and Ethan Hawke as John Brown in THE GOOD LORD BIRD, “Meet the ...

By noon, nearly 100 Virginia militiamen had gathered to seal Brown’s escape route. Trapped in the armory’s fire engine house (now called John Brown’s Fort), Brown was doomed. He was tried for murder, ...

John Brown was a white Calvinist for whom slavery was the sum of all that is evil, and he resolved to eradicate it at any cost. In 1959 his band of guerillas attacked a federal weapons depot in Harper ...

DARGAN, Maryland -- The spears that John Brown ordered for his abolitionist army were fearsome, primitive things. Nearly seven feet long, the pikes had 10-inch steel blades made for slashing and ...

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 ...

Brown’s crusade culminated in his doomed raid on Harpers Ferry, where he seized the federal armory in a bid to instigate a slave rebellion. SEE ALSO: History As It Happens: Lincoln and the woke left ...

THE VIRGINIA REBELLION.; INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS. Preliminary Examination of the Conspirators. COURAGEOUS SPEECH OF JOHN BROWN. Oct. 26, 1859 The New York Times Archives See the article in its ...

On-screen you often act with emotional restraint, but in theaterthose feelings frequently burst through with, say, John Brown-esque intensity. Was it fun to get to do that on film?

Hawke, a four-time Oscar nominee, teamed with screenwriter Mark Richard to create the new Showtime limited series based on James McBride’s novel, premiering October 4th.