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Experiment: "John Brown Speaks" Meets Google's Notebook LM
In this episode, Lou uploads the transcript of the extended introduction of his book, John Brown Speaks (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) to one of Google's AI programs, Notebook LM. Notebook LM "reads" the introduction and t...
2011 Throwback: Should John Brown Be Posthumously Pardoned?
In this episode, Lou introduces the question of whether John Brown should be posthumously pardoned. The theme begins with biographer David S. Reynold's Op-Ed in the New York Times on December 1, 2009 entitled, "Freedom's Martyr," in wh...
The Terrible Parable of the Dumbass Doyles
In this episode, Lou revisits the story of James and Maehala Doyle of Tennessee, who devoted themselves and their family to supporting slavery and opposing antislavery and abolitionist settlers in the Kansas Territory. In the Pottawatomie incid...
John Brown, Accomplices, and the Struggle Against Systemic Racism: A Conversation with Dan Morrison
In this episode, Lou speaks with Dan Morrison, the founder of the John Brown Project and a documentary filmmaker from Torrington, Connecticut, John Brown’s birthplace. Morrison details his work, i...
The John Brown Lens: What would Brown Say About Contemporary Zionist Israel, the Charlie Kirk Tragedy, & Trump's War on the History of Slavery
In this episode, Lou breaks with the regular approach of this podcast to put a John Brown lens on pressing contemporary issues. He specifically addresses three main topics, arguing why John Brown would be an anti-Zionist due to the movem...
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Professor! I am a new but huge fan, I recently discovered your podcast. I’m a veterinarian from CT and a Brownite to the core….made the pilgrimage from Torrington to North Elba and back again to Harper’s Ferry and I can’t get enough! Thanks for all the terrific content, looking forward to your books (just wrapping Oates, which I read after Horowitz). Happy Fourth, I like you I’m sure think of him today more than any of the other national heroes as the one we owe it all to!!! -James McNamara Redding, CT
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