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John Brown Today — 55 episodes
Experiment: "John Brown Speaks" Meets Google's Notebook LM
2011 Throwback: Should John Brown Be Posthumously Pardoned?
The Terrible Parable of the Dumbass Doyles
John Brown, Accomplices, and the Struggle Against Systemic Racism: A Conversation with Dan Morrison
The John Brown Lens: What would Brown Say About Contemporary Zionist Israel, the Charlie Kirk Tragedy, & Trump's War on the History of Slavery
Echoes of Abolition: An Interview with Biographer and Cultural Historian David S. Reynolds
A "Secret Six" Tour: Discovering the Contemporary Origin of the Term
Misusing John Brown: From Luigi Mangione to Christian Nationalism
The Cat Who Went to Kansas (and Other John Brown Animals)
Sick of Bonhoeffer? Why the USA Can Celebrate a German Martyr, But Not John Brown
Back Again!
The Legend of John Brown's Baby Kiss Revisited
"From John Brown to James Brown": A Conversation with Ed Maliskas
The Sellout of Harper's Ferry Station: The Difficult Case of Heyward Shepherd
Reaction & Reflection: David Blight on John Brown - - "John Brown Terrorist or Hero?"
What Did Blacks Really Think of John Brown? Kudos & Conflicts (Part 1)
What Did Blacks Really Think of John Brown? The Question of "Sambo Mistakes" (Part 2)
Questioning John Brown’s Sanity: A Historical Thread Considered
John Brown’s Trial: The “Lost” Narrative of George H. Hoyt
Why John Brown? A Biographer's Reflections in Response to a Thoughtful Critic
Good Boy with a Gun: The Tragic Story of Will Leeman, A Harper’s Ferry Raider
"John Brown Has Been Lost to His Own Church": An Interview with Louis DeCaro Jr. by Dr. Chris Dost, July 10, 2021
Biography: The Ups and Downs of Mr. Brown, 1835-1851
A Disparate Legacy: Oswald Garrison Villard and the John Brown Biography
Interrogating History: The Mayflower, “America,” and John Brown
Light vs. Lies: The Real History of the Harper's Ferry Raid (with a Jan. 6th epilogue!)
My John Brown Holiday Notes
A Text For the Nation: John Brown Beyond Biography
John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Moral Core: A Juxtaposition for December 2
Explaining John Brown Correctly: A Conversation with Dan Morrison
Mary Ellen Pleasant and "The Rule of Credible Evidence"
The Voices of the Past: A Conversation with Ian Barford (Part 2)
The Voices of the Past: A Conversation with Ian Barford (Part 1)
Reading John Brown's "A Declaration of Liberty" (July 4, 1859)
Father and Son
John Brown Remembrance (2020)
John Brown's Best Friend in the Twentieth Century
Hurrah For Old John Brown: The July 4th 1860 Meeting at John Brown's Farm & Grave
"God's Angry Men" Revisited
Letters and Friends: A Zoom Conversation with Margaret Washington!
"Never Tell It": John Brown and the Masonic Lodge
Zooming John Brown: A Visit with Terry Leonino & Greg Artzner of Magpie
All Their John Browns (With Some Lincoln Birthday Fun)
Pulled Back In: America’s Good Terrorist and the Mind of Old Virginia--A Review
John Brown's Bankruptcy Bookshelf
Catch Him if You Can: The True Story of Alexander Ross, John Brown’s Fraudulent “Friend”
"Emperor" Shields Green--A Hollywood Movie and My Book Too
"What Was John Brown Like?" A Biographer's Deep Dive
The Fool as Biographer: Otto Scott and "The Secret Six"
John Brown, Philadelphia, and a Decoy Coffin
Pottawatomie, 1856: The Political and the Personal
The "Battle Hymn" Revision, White Liberals, and Malcolm X
How a Theater Critic Saved the Freedom of the Press in 1859
"The Good Lord Bird" and the Uses of Art
Why Were You Miseducated About John Brown?