All Their John Browns (With Some Lincoln Birthday Fun)

How many John Browns can you think  of? In this episode, Lou shares some reflections on biography and how John Brown has been portrayed in biographical and cultural terms since his death in 1859 and up through today.  While this episode is about Old Brown, there is some reflection on Old Abe, but rest assured, it's all in good fun.  Or is it?  I doubt the Lincoln Squirrel is laughing.

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Chapters

• 0:45 Biographies and books, books, books
• 1:05 Abraham, Martin and Jesus
• 2:48 Reports of Lincoln's Greatness Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
• 3:45 A Tower of Lincoln logs, I mean, books
• 4:05 The Beloved Lincoln Squirrel
• 4:53 It's Just Not Fair
• 5:45 What I've Come Up With Here
• 6:20 No. 1 The Christ Figure of the Abolitionists
• 8:07 No. 2 The Well Meaning but Lawless Extremist
• 11:14 No. 3 The Christ Figure of the Enslaved
• 13:04 No. 4 The Murderous Brigand
• 14:15 No. 5 The Flawed, Contradictory Good Guy
• 15:56 No. 6 The Patriot Liberator of Democracy
• 18:23 No. 7 The Insane Provocateur
• 23:04 No. 8 The Revolutionary Hero
• 25:22 No. 9 The "High Bar" of Rapprochement and Challenge for Modern Black Leaders
• 27:33 No. 10 The Terrorist Prototype
• 31:09 No. 11 A Paternalistic White Man Who Cannot Be Trusted
• 36:54 Like I said. . .
• 37:46 Biographies and Buttons
• 39:00 The Ham Hand May Be the Dagger Hand
• 40:05 A Story That Still Needs to Be Told
• 40:45 Abe Meets Lieut. Uhura