12 episodes
American Carnage The Pottawatomie Rifles
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A podcast about the history of political violence in the United States, launching with a five-part series on the radical abolitionist John Brown.
"My new favorite history podcast, a wonderful mixture of dramatic narrative and searching analysis." — Jeet Heer, national political correspondent for The Nation
Episode 5 coming soon.
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Bleeding Kansas' Deadliest Day
In May 1858, a proslavery gang massacred 11 unarmed Free Staters in eastern Kansas. The incident sparked outrage, and led John Brown to embark one of his most daring exploits.
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SUBSCRIBERS: John Brown's Christmas raid
What was going through Brown's head at Harpers Ferry? The story of his remarkably successful raid into Missouri gives us clues.
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Bonus ep: Bleeding Kansas' Deadliest Day
In May 1858, a proslavery gang massacred 11 unarmed Free Staters in eastern Kansas. The incident sparked outrage, and led John Brown to embark one of his most daring exploits. The first of a two-part bonus series about John Brown's final months in Kansas.
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Ep 5: A great white light
What was it, exactly, about John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry that contributed to the abolition of slavery?
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Bonus ep: The forging of John Brown
An interview with a historian about Brown's formative years in Springfield, Mass.
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Ep 4: No ghost of a distinction
John Brown envisioned a mass slave uprising. So where were they?
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