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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...
Fan Mail
thanks for being more forceful in this latest episode. Take or leave this idea but... since PBS and Ken Burns (neither of which I'm a huge fan of) is airing a documentary on Thoreau in 18 days (I will watch cuz I love Thoreau) maybe have a podcast episode on him since David Reynolds book's hypothesis (which I just read and LOVED) is about how if it wasn't for Thoreau, we wouldn't know about Brown. Just a thought. Love this podcast no matter what and just got back from seeing the curry painting again in Kansas B4 it's removed. I'm worried about all Brown sites and have been for a few years. Idris robinson's new book mentions John Brown 17 times as well. It's a great piece of work. Just fyi.
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