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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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Signup to Generate a PitchJohn 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 is hosted by Louis DeCaro Jr.. The show has published 60 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Covenant of Blood: John Brown and His Jewish Associates in Kansas, Part 2" (14 June 2026, 15 minutes), "Covenant of Blood: John Brown and His Jewish Associates in Kansas, Part 1" (14 June 2026, 27 minutes), and "Experiment: "John Brown Speaks" Meets Google's Notebook LM" (4 May 2026, 50 minutes).
John Brown Today publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 34 minutes across 60 episodes.
Booking probability for John Brown Today is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. John Brown Today requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. John Brown Today's contact route on record: public web form.
Louis DeCaro Jr. hosts John Brown Today, a history podcast with 60 episodes published.
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John Brown Today
Send us Fan Mail 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...
John Brown Today
Send us Fan Mail 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...
John Brown Today
Send us Fan Mail 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...
John Brown Today
Send us Fan Mail 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...
John Brown Today
Send us Fan Mail 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...
John Brown Today
Send us Fan Mail 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...
John Brown Today
Send us Fan Mail 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...
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Send us Fan Mail 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...
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Send us Fan Mail 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...
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Send us Fan Mail 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...
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Send us Fan Mail In 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...
Episode #2
Send us Fan Mail 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...
Episode #1
Send us Fan Mail 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...
Episode #3
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Lou does a deep dive evaluation of the legend of John Brown kissing a black baby on the day of his execution, a story that has been enshrined in poetry and paintings. Sharing his...
Episode #2
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Lou shares a conversation with author Ed Maliskas, a musician, clergyman, and researcher, the author of John Brown to James Brown: The Little Farm Where Liberty Budded, Blossomed, and...
Episode #1
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Lou takes on the difficult theme of Heyward Shepherd, the black porter who was mortally wounded by John Brown's men during the Harper's Ferry raid, on the night of October 16, 1859...
Episode #10
Send us Fan Mail After an extended hiatus, Lou returns with a reaction & reflection upon the YouTube video, "John Brown: Terrorist or Hero?" which features a short lecture by the eminent historian David Blight. John...
Episode #9
Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of this two-part episode, Lou reflects upon the question of white allies, particularly in the case of John Brown's story. What did black leaders and other associates really think of John...
Episode #8
Send us Fan Mail In Part 1 of "What Did Blacks Really Think of John Brown?" Lou reflects upon the question of white allies, particularly in the case of John Brown's story. What did black leaders and other associates...
Episode #7
Send us Fan Mail Many people in the United States, especially (but not exclusively) white people, tend to think of John Brown as someone who was "crazy." In this episode, Lou surveys what he calls a historical "thread"...
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