On January 25, 2024, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will open “The Book of Two Hemispheres:” Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the United States and Europe. This exhibition explores the international ...

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In this drawing from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' a Black child is taken from his mother by a white man. Culture Club/Getty Images In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in ...

The book that started the Civil War. According to Abraham Lincoln, it was the book that started the Civil War. Queen Victoria wept while reading it. Tolstoy included it among the greatest achievements ...

Consider the phrase “Uncle Tom”. In Beecher Stowe’s book, he was a hero. What changed? What do you think of when you hear the phrase “Uncle Tom?” On March 28, 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe published the ...

Learn how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin sparked national debate and changed how many Americans understood slavery. By Brandon B. Fortune, Chief Curator, National Portrait Gallery New ...

The book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” has often been labeled as the kindling wood of the Civil War. Written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was the child of a protestant preacher, it was originally ...

Mar. 3—In December 1850, John Andrew Jackson — who had escaped a plantation in South Carolina and was living in Massachusetts — showed up at the Brunswick home that Harriet Beecher Stowe and her ...

Collectors of all ages are gathering at the MeadowView Convention Center in Kingsport Saturday for a trading card event. Community rallies around family after tragic house fire claims two young lives ...

The sculpture is expected to be finished by September. A project is in the works to pay tribute to Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," with the first life-sized sculpture in her ...

Our editors' top picks to read today. In my biography of John Andrew Jackson, “A Plausible Man,” I detail his remarkable life. An old wooden fence surrounds a replica of a one-room windowless cabin in ...