If systemic racism ended, when did it end? Help finish Pushing the Rock, a three-part documentary series. $14,000 unlocks CT Humanities matching funds.

Historian Mat Callahan and Dr. Kathy Bullock of Berea College recover songs that called for freedom and insurrection, from an 1813 South Carolina revolt to Gabriel’s Rebellion of 1800.

Women were equal in the Brown family because all people were created equal

Crushing the persistent, mainstream delusion that John Brown was somehow a terrorist.

Brown receives multiple letters in his Charles Town, VA jail cell from abolitionist women

A week of local events, concerts, and scholar panels to celebrate the Torrington-born abolitionist, his family's local roots, and the universal fight for human rights.

One hundred and twenty-three nations agreed this week that kidnapping, brutalizing, and enslaving millions of Africans over three centuries was wrong.

A forgotten newspaper dispatch reminds us that three remarkable murals hang in our post office, and that our most famous native son was right.

Basically, he was the quintessential good neighbor

Virtual Event Marks the First of Ten Multi-State Conversations Leading Into the 250th Anniversary of the United States

Meet the director, ask questions about John Brown’s place in history, or if he invented rock and roll

A year that started out looking grim, and then got worse, has really finished strong for this fledgeling little media company.

After we intervierwed Dr. Lou DeCaro for our film, he turned the microphone on Dan to record an episode the John Brown Today podcast.

John Brown has been beaten up by history because white enslavers despised his views on freedom, and white abolitionists didn’t want him eclipsing Lincoln.

At the crowdfunding launch party for Pushing the Rock, we asked a simple question: Why are you doing this?

To our 18 Day-1 Backers: THANK YOU.

If you don’t have time to interview a Tuskegee Airman and half a dozen scholars to make a documentary film, let our platform be your voice.

What if history class hit you in the heart—and left you humming?

25 places to go, see, eat, and other tourism attractions—largely centered on abolitionist John Brown—when visiting his hometown, Torrington, CT

America still treats Brown like a terrorist and Lee like a gentleman. Let’s talk about who actually fought for freedom—and who killed for slavery.