Autocratic rulers who ignore scientific evidence and think they know the answers to everything have caused suffering and death throughout history. More than 60 years ago, Chairman Mao Zedong ignored ...

Museum London played host to a panel discussion of six museum curators and historians who shared details about the work their ...

in 1858. Tubman helped Brown plan the ill-fated raid on the Harpers Ferry Armory the following year in what is now West Virginia, an event which helped spark the Civil War.

John Brown is cornered at Harpers Ferry and Robert E Lee's army rushes the armory doors. He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah.

Most historians concentrate on the social and historical events caused by the 1859 raid of abolitionist John Brown and his ...