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Covenant of Blood: John Brown and His Jewish Associates in Kansas, Part 2
In Part 2 of this gripping exploration into John Brown and his Jewish associates in Kansas, Lou revisits the infamous Pottawatomie Creek killings. Grounding the narrative in the vital testimony of August Bondi alongside other primary and second...
Covenant of Blood: John Brown and His Jewish Associates in Kansas, Part 1
In this episode, Lou introduces us to the fascinating and unlikely alliance between John Brown’s family and local Jewish immigrants in the violent, war-torn landscape of Territorial Kansas. To set the stage, Lou explores how Brown—a self-consci...
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...
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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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