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John Brown Today

Louis DeCaro Jr.

John Brown Today is a podcast devoted to historical and contemporary themes relating to the abolitionist John Brown (1800-59), the controversial antislavery and antiracist freedom fighter. John Brown Today is hosted by Louis A. DeCaro Jr., a Brown biographer and researcher, the most prolific author on the John Brown theme since the abolitionist"s death in 1859. John Brown Today engages a range of themes from history and biography to popular culture and other contemporary themes.

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All Episodes

55:06

John Brown, Accomplices, and the Struggle Against...

John Brown Today ·

2025/11/04

Send us a text 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, including a community arts project that produced a 21st-century remix of the Civil War era song, "John Brown's Body" and his current musical documentary, "Pushing the Rock," which examines systemic racism in America and features interviews with historical figures’ descendants and schola...

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39:46

The John Brown Lens: What would Brown Say About...

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2025/09/19

Send us a text 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 movement's oppressive colonial practices and its perceived anti-biblical, racialized nature; critiquing the notion that the recently murdered Charlie Kirk was a Christian martyr because of his white nationalist views and opposition to the Black civil...

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54:21

Echoes of Abolition: An Interview with Biographer and...

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2025/09/05

Send us a text In this episode, Lou interviews the preeminent cultural historian of the 19th-century USA, David S. Reynolds. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Reynolds' landmark biography, John Brown Abolitionist. Reynolds opens by describing his most recent project, the forthcoming Two Ships (Penguin), and then revisits the writing of John Brown Abolitionist, rehearsing some key themes from the book as well as reflecting on his background and methodology a...

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24:46

A "Secret Six" Tour: Discovering the Contemporary...

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2025/07/24

Send us a text In this episode, I am inviting you on a peculiar historical tour of the term, "Secret Six." While John Brown students are accustomed to seeing this term used to speak of Brown's key supporters, this episode is about the origin of the term and its significance in the literature about Brown. As you'll discover, while the "tour" of "Secret Six" is full of trivial and interesting cases where the term has been used since the nineteenth century, it was not really applied to Bro...

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50:36

Malcolm X on John Brown: A Centennial Remembrance

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2025/05/19

Send us a text In this episode, Lou shares an extended reflection on Malcolm X that is attuned to the memory and legacy of John Brown. Going beyond easy, almost cliché use of Malcolm's words, Lou draws on his background as a Malcolm X biographer to reflect upon both the strategic and personal approach of the memorable black leader to John Brown's legacy. This May 19, 2025 is the centennial of Malcolm X's birth. With one foot in the antebellum era and another foot in the Civil Rights era...

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36:09

Misusing John Brown: From Luigi Mangione to Christian...

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2025/02/04

Send us a text In this episode, Lou discusses two recent online articles to illustrate how John Brown is often appropriated and misused by writers in discussing contemporary issues. The first article discussed is an effort to draw a parallel between John Brown and Luigi Mangione, who allegedly murdered a healthcare executive in cold blood last year. The second article presents John Brown as a Christian Nationalist. In both cases, Lou objects to the misuse of John Brown, showing how inac...

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14:39

The Cat Who Went to Kansas (and Other John Brown...

John Brown Today ·

2024/12/17

Send us a textIn this episode, Lou discusses the animals--pets, livestock, and others who are part of the John Brown story, from the dogs of Harper's Ferry to a cat who went to Kansas. Just when you thought you'd heard everything about John Brown, huh?Guest music: "Story of a Toy" by Freedom Trail Studio (Youtube)Also available on the John Brown Today YouTube station

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11:45

Sick of Bonhoeffer? Why the USA Can Celebrate a...

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2024/12/03

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in 1906, and was a German Lutheran pastor, a figure noted in the theological world for his neo-orthodox views, and his most popular book, The Cost of Discipleship. Bonhoeffer is more widely remembered as an anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church which opposed the Nazis. In the 1940s, Bonhoeffer joined the German underground, but was arrested and incarcerated at Tegel Prison, where he remained for over a year. However...

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5:09

Back Again!

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2024/12/03

After the better of two years, John Brown Today is going back in production. This is just a brief message to greet listeners and to update them a bit, and thank them for maintaining an interest in this podcast. John Brown Today is coming back and I'm looking forward to what lies ahead. So stay tuned. Please note that two episodes will be uploaded for December 2024.Music: "Burden Laid Down" by The Westerlies (YouTube)

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38:54

The Legend of John Brown's Baby Kiss Revisited

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2023/04/12

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46:41

"From John Brown to James Brown": A Conversation with...

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2023/02/05

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44:09

The Sellout of Harper's Ferry Station: The Difficult...

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2023/01/17

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52:07

Reaction & Reflection: David Blight on John Brown - -...

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2022/12/29

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28:06

What Did Blacks Really Think of John Brown? The...

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2022/10/24

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30:32

What Did Blacks Really Think of John Brown? Kudos &...

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2022/10/24

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48:50

Questioning John Brown’s Sanity: A Historical Thread...

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2022/09/09

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57:11

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

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2022/07/25

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44:00

Why John Brown? A Biographer's Reflections in...

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2022/06/30

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48:00

Good Boy with a Gun: The Tragic Story of Will Leeman,...

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2022/05/26

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54:45

"John Brown Has Been Lost to His Own Church": An...

John Brown Today ·

2022/04/30

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