15 episodes
American Carnage The Pottawatomie Rifles
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4.4 • 180 Ratings
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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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John Brown & Henry David Thoreau
The fascinating scholar Ilkin Huseynli joins us to discuss how to make sense of how the intellectual grandfather of "civil disobedience" was also such a passionate supporter of the militant John Brown.
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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.
The second of a two-part bonus series about Brown's final days in Kansas.
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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.
The first of a two-part bonus series about John Brown's final months in Kansas.
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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.
The first of a two-part series about John Brown's final months in Kansas. -
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.
The second in a two-part series. -
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.
Customer Reviews
God bless John Brown!!
The review of John Brown I’ve been waiting for.
Others I’ve listened to hem and haw over his violent actions and fret over his mental state while seeming to not seriously consider the inherent overt and also pernicious destruction of humanity that slavery is and worse the passive acceptance that it exists. Here John Browns story is beautiful told in thoughtful and uncompromising clarity without using over long sentences and bad grammar, as I am doing now.
Rings familiar with other freedom struggles
Subscription is paid from my excess household savings.
Great topic!
Could go with tighter asides during the analysis. Appreciate the injection of context and framing for events that are often much too sanitized intellectually. Hope y’all do more. Would be good to see major cultural/historical periods revisited like this.