Four midshipmen discuss the controversies surrounding John Brown's 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry, a key event leading to the Civil War. They also interview Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson, author of Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence (2019).

This podcast was produced for the US Naval Academy History Department's HH200 course, "The Historian's Craft." Organized around a topic of the instructor's choice, this first of three required History Major seminars introduces 3/C majors to the intellectual and structural origins of the modern discipline of history, including subfields of history and methodological approaches. Students pose a research question and pursue a research design, including a mini-prospectus along with an annotated bibliography. 

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