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.
John Brown Today
Claim This Podcastby Louis DeCaro Jr.
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56 episodes
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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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Recent Episodes
May 4, 2026
Experiment: "John Brown Speaks" Meets Google's Notebook LM
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 introduction and then produces a faux podcast featuring two human-like voices discussing the content of the article. As this experiment shows, AI is a very useful and interesting tool, but it is not without its flaws and biases based on the source and content of ...
March 14, 2026
2011 Throwback: Should John Brown Be Posthumously Pardoned?
Send a text 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 which he suggested the symbolic value of a posthumous pardon for Brown, either by the State of Virginia or even by then President Barack Obama. Two years later, this question was revisited by a John Brown birthday meeting, "Five Nine 2011" ...
March 2, 2026
The Terrible Parable of the Dumbass Doyles
Send a text 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 Kansas Territory. In the Pottawatomie incident of May 1856, Doyle and his two oldest sons, William and Drury, were killed by John Brown's men, under the leadership of the old man, because of their role in spreading and supporting proslavery terrorism in the territory, and for posing ...
56 total episodes available with 2 transcripts
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