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John Brown America 250:
Renewing the Revolution

John Brown: America 250 is a loose coalition of “Browniac” organizations, advocates, scholars, and regular folks who celebrate Brown’s passion for equality and America’s founding principles of a multiracial democracy.

As we mark America’s 250th anniversary, #JohnBrown250 is setting the historical record straight about a patriot who gave his life for the founding principle that all people are created equal.

John Brown: America250
upcoming ROUNDTABLES

  • A Tale of Two Farms

    Sept 14 via Zoom

    7:00 - 8:30 PM, Eastern
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    4:00 - 5:30 PM Pacific
    12:00 AM (Midnight) in London
    10:00 AM in Sydney

    Sandra Weber, Ed Maliskas, and maybe Sprigg Lynn will join Lou in looking closer at the Two John Brown farms currently available for looking at: the Kennedy Farm in Sharpsburg, MD, and the John Brown Farm in North Elba, NY.

    They’ll also talk about an under-talked-about man: Henry Thompson, who built the house in North Elba.

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  • John Brown and The Raiders

    Oct 26 via Zoom

    7:00 - 8:30 PM, Eastern
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    12:00 AM (Midnight) in London
    10:00 AM in Sydney

    Not a new punk band.
    Harper’s Ferry raider descendant, Lewis Sheridan Hughes will join journalist Eugene Meyer and (maybe) others to tell some untold stories of the famed Harper’s Ferry Raiders.

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  • Faith in Action, Action, ACTION!

    Nov 16 via Zoom

    7:00 - 8:30 PM, Eastern
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    12:00 AM (Midnight) in London
    10:00 AM in Sydney

    Lou is joined by Ryan Johnson, Ph.D., a philospher who has come to the conclusion that allys must become ACCOMPLICES.

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  • Last Words: Brown and Copeland

    Dec 14 via Zoom

    7:00 - 8:30 PM, Eastern
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    5:00 - 6:30 PM Mountain
    4:00 - 5:30 PM Pacific
    12:00 AM (Midnight) in London
    10:00 AM in Sydney

    John Anthony Copeland Jr. was a Harper's Ferry Raider, hung in Charles Town, West Virginia

    Confirmed guests:

    • Magpie, the award-winning musical duo, Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner

    • More guests!

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provisional dispatches

Featured
John Brown, Fringe Constitutionalist: The Ideas America Chose to Forget
John Brown, Fringe Constitutionalist: The Ideas America Chose to Forget

Robert Tsai explains why Brown's constitutional thought was discredited, how it sat between Douglass and Garrison, and why fringe constitutions still shape American politics.

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How Villard's 1910 Biography Wounded John Brown's Legacy for a Century
How Villard's 1910 Biography Wounded John Brown's Legacy for a Century

Historian Louis DeCaro traces how Franklin Sanborn defended John Brown while Oswald Villard's 1910 biography armed a century of critics. A JB250 reflection.

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John Brown on the Terrorism of Slavery
John Brown on the Terrorism of Slavery

Louis DeCaro Jr., Ph.D., historian and biographer of John Brown, shares what may be a previously unpublished letter Brown wrote to a Kansas abolitionist shortly before the October 1859 Harper's Ferry raid.

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