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John Brown Today — 55 episodes

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1

Experiment: "John Brown Speaks" Meets Google's Notebook LM

2

2011 Throwback: Should John Brown Be Posthumously Pardoned?

3

The Terrible Parable of the Dumbass Doyles

4

John Brown, Accomplices, and the Struggle Against Systemic Racism: A Conversation with Dan Morrison

5

The John Brown Lens: What would Brown Say About Contemporary Zionist Israel, the Charlie Kirk Tragedy, & Trump's War on the History of Slavery

6

Echoes of Abolition: An Interview with Biographer and Cultural Historian David S. Reynolds

7

A "Secret Six" Tour: Discovering the Contemporary Origin of the Term

8

Misusing John Brown: From Luigi Mangione to Christian Nationalism

9

The Cat Who Went to Kansas (and Other John Brown Animals)

10

Sick of Bonhoeffer? Why the USA Can Celebrate a German Martyr, But Not John Brown

11

Back Again!

12

The Legend of John Brown's Baby Kiss Revisited

13

"From John Brown to James Brown": A Conversation with Ed Maliskas

14

The Sellout of Harper's Ferry Station: The Difficult Case of Heyward Shepherd

15

Reaction & Reflection: David Blight on John Brown - - "John Brown Terrorist or Hero?"

16

What Did Blacks Really Think of John Brown? Kudos & Conflicts (Part 1)

17

What Did Blacks Really Think of John Brown? The Question of "Sambo Mistakes" (Part 2)

18

Questioning John Brown’s Sanity: A Historical Thread Considered

19

John Brown’s Trial: The “Lost” Narrative of George H. Hoyt

20

Why John Brown? A Biographer's Reflections in Response to a Thoughtful Critic

21

Good Boy with a Gun: The Tragic Story of Will Leeman, A Harper’s Ferry Raider

22

"John Brown Has Been Lost to His Own Church": An Interview with Louis DeCaro Jr. by Dr. Chris Dost, July 10, 2021

23

Biography: The Ups and Downs of Mr. Brown, 1835-1851

24

A Disparate Legacy: Oswald Garrison Villard and the John Brown Biography

25

Interrogating History: The Mayflower, “America,” and John Brown

26

Light vs. Lies: The Real History of the Harper's Ferry Raid (with a Jan. 6th epilogue!)

27

My John Brown Holiday Notes

28

A Text For the Nation: John Brown Beyond Biography

29

John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Moral Core: A Juxtaposition for December 2

30

Explaining John Brown Correctly: A Conversation with Dan Morrison

31

Mary Ellen Pleasant and "The Rule of Credible Evidence"

32

The Voices of the Past: A Conversation with Ian Barford (Part 2)

33

The Voices of the Past: A Conversation with Ian Barford (Part 1)

34

Reading John Brown's "A Declaration of Liberty" (July 4, 1859)

35

Father and Son

36

John Brown Remembrance (2020)

37

John Brown's Best Friend in the Twentieth Century

38

Hurrah For Old John Brown: The July 4th 1860 Meeting at John Brown's Farm & Grave

39

"God's Angry Men" Revisited

40

Letters and Friends: A Zoom Conversation with Margaret Washington!

41

"Never Tell It": John Brown and the Masonic Lodge

42

Zooming John Brown: A Visit with Terry Leonino & Greg Artzner of Magpie

43

All Their John Browns (With Some Lincoln Birthday Fun)

44

Pulled Back In: America’s Good Terrorist and the Mind of Old Virginia--A Review

45

John Brown's Bankruptcy Bookshelf

46

Catch Him if You Can: The True Story of Alexander Ross, John Brown’s Fraudulent “Friend”

47

"Emperor" Shields Green--A Hollywood Movie and My Book Too

48

"What Was John Brown Like?" A Biographer's Deep Dive

49

The Fool as Biographer: Otto Scott and "The Secret Six"

50

John Brown, Philadelphia, and a Decoy Coffin

51

Pottawatomie, 1856: The Political and the Personal

52

The "Battle Hymn" Revision, White Liberals, and Malcolm X

53

How a Theater Critic Saved the Freedom of the Press in 1859

54

"The Good Lord Bird" and the Uses of Art

55

Why Were You Miseducated About John Brown?