This year marks both the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of the anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” ...

Who can recite from memory even a single line of dialogue or description from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the most influential novel in American history? Anybody? No, I didn’t think so. Yet almost everyone who ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Book Cover of Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, According to popular legend, Abraham Lincoln welcomed Harriet Beecher ...

Amidst all today's news stories of troubles at home and abroad, I would like to go back some 150 years to recommend a book that rocked its world then - and can once again inspire readers to fight the ...

“The Book of Two Hemispheres” highlights the dynamic visual culture that arose in response to the most famous American anti-slavery novel of its era and arguably of all time: "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" by ...

Josiah Henson as a young man at left, and at right, at age 87, photographed in Boston on June 17, 1876 Library of Congress; Schlesinger Library From its very first moments in print on March 20, 1852, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. It can be a challenge to grasp the full historical context of a novel, even ...

Folklorist Patricia Turner discusses "Uncle Tom" — the lead character in the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe — as part of NPR's In Character series. The ...