Nov. 19 letters to the editor Nov 20, 2009
Congratulations and thanks to the Littleton Lyceum Committee for last Friday's presentation by Jan Turnquist of "Harriet Beecher Stowe." Whether or not one grew up reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin," this intriguing reenactment of the author in her Civil War setting was a masterful performance. What luck to have good live theater - including the Cannon. (Littleton Independent, MA)
Some of My Best Friends are Uncle Toms Nov 3, 2009
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a Puritan who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin as an anti-slavery book and Uncle Tom's character was actually intended as a noble hero. She meant well but was still offensive (remind you of any white progressives you know. (Slate)
Sculptor couple exhibit at art league Oct 9, 2009
Now Lucchesi's humanist, figural work dots Hartford and could itself be part of a tour of the city, with a bust of Frederick Law Olmsted for The Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital and a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe at the Riverfront Plaza. She has a bas relief sculpture on the Stackpole, Moore and Tryon clothing store building. (West Hartford News, CT)
Fugitive Slave Josiah Henson Oct 7, 2009
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin ... Unlike Turner, Henson refused to use violence even when given the opportunity to do so, and became the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom ... His exceptional life story became the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom in the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom s Cabin, first published in 1852. (Suite101.com)
Books of siege Sep 25, 2009
First published in print: Friday, September 25, 2009. Think of it as chance to sample some great literature, an introduction or reacquaintance with both books that have come to be classics and some that haven't attracted enough attention beyond the censors and self-appointed moral arbiters. (Albany Times Union)
Press Censorship in American Histor... Sep 22, 2009
In the years preceding the Civil War, a strong abolitionist movement arose in the north, epitomized by William Lloyd Garrison s The Liberator and Harriet Beecher Stowe s serialized novel, Uncle Tom s Cabin. Abolitionist presses in the North produced newspapers, pamphlets, memoirs, books, and petitions designed to sway public opinion. (Suite101.com)
Art and The American Civil War Sep 21, 2009
Harriet Beecher Stowe s novel Dred used the area as a backdrop, and it was additionally the setting for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow s poignant poem "The Slave in The Dismal Swamp.". Sources. (Suite101.com)
Support for City Council candidate in a music video Sep 20, 2009
He was originally going to make the announcement in the Harriet Beecher Stowe Room, but switched to the same room as Coakley. The only other major Democrat to announce for Senate so far - Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca - is the only one to choose a different locale, opting for an announcement at the TD Garden. (Boston Globe)
Richard Poirier; literary critic and writer who founded Library of America Aug 22, 2009
With grants from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the nonprofit venture began publishing in May 1982, with works by Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman. Nearly 200 volumes collecting the works of Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, Philip Roth, and other writers have been published to date. (Boston Globe)
Second Great Awakening and American... Aug 7, 2009
Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin ends with a jeremiad that predicts the wrath of God upon the American nation for the evils of slavery. The 1831 Nat Turner slave revolt in Southern Virginia was led by a highly intelligent slave who knew the Bible and was convinced that God had sent him signs designed to liberate the slaves. (Suite101.com)
Future shock made child’s play Jul 26, 2009
The center s website encourages visitors to wander around Hartford s Constitution Plaza and Founders Bridge, and lists other local attractions, such as the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and places to eat and stay overnight. Henry and Joyce Gutterman of Windsor bought a season pass with the idea of bringing their granddaughter, Hannah, 7, back for more visits. (Boston Globe)
Q&A with Gates Jul 21, 2009
Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery classic, first published in serialized form in 1851, outsold every book but the Bible in 19th-century America ... Baldwin said that Richard Wright, like Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a pamphleteer, a polemicist, unlike the truly great Negro writer -- meaning, well, himself ... Working on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," I realized Stokely and the others weren't thinking about James Baldwin or Harriet Beecher Stowe or even Roy Wilkins, head of the NAACP. They meant Uncle Tom... (Boston Globe)
Nashville's Hatch Show Print Jun 1, 2009
The brothers moved to Nashville and in 1879 turned out their new company s first print job: a handbill announcing the appearance of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, brother of famed abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe. So successful was that first gig, that business poured in and soon the Hatch brothers creations were seen on the sides of buildings and barns across the Southeast. (Suite101.com)
Room of Her Own May 25, 2009
In 1869, Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe could write in The American Woman s Home, It is the aim of this volume to elevate both the honor and the remuneration of all employments that sustain the many difficult and varied duties of the family state, and thus to render each department of woman s profession as much desired and respected as the most honored professions of men. But with modern conveniences came a premium on efficiency the market s gateway into the private sphere, where... (The American Conservative)
#69 WETHERSFIELD, CONNECTICUT May 15, 2009
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center pays homage to the popular author, best known for "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and includes a museum, library, programs and events. Browse Main Street, another throwback, for jewelry, art, ceramics, sewing supplies and gardening goodies. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Coming to grips May 14, 2009
I was stewing about whether or not we would be pulling Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe from the reading list next. then I found out it's not even on the reading list. (Laurel Outlook, MT)
Domestic violence misportrayed Apr 29, 2009
rockdawg wrote on Apr 28, 2009 9:14 AM:" It sounds to me like the DV industry based their agenda on the infamous Emancipation Industry of the mid nineteenth century. Opportunists like Harriet Beecher Stowe, voicing pro-E propaganda like It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done incited dangerous fanatics like John Brown to violence to propagate her income stream, encouraging the rightful property of law-abiding men to... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Following Boston's other historic trail Apr 20, 2009
Later the building housed Ticknor and Fields, publishers of, among others, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Nowadays, chain bookstores are located nearby, but these stores, despite delicious lattes, do not follow in Hutchinson's tradition of independence; a central office decides what books are available in Boston or Anchorage or Nashville. (Boston Globe)
Most Mohawk Valley legislators oppose gay marriage Apr 17, 2009
Paterson framed the issue in sweeping terms, invoking Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe and drawing a parallel between the fight to eliminate slavery in the 1800s to the current effort to allow gay marriage. Rights should not be stifled by fear, Paterson said. (Utica NY Obserer, NY)
Stoneham High students compete at state finals Apr 16, 2009
Eleven Stoneham High School students earned the right to compete at the state finals: Gina Fuccillo and Emily Houghton (for their exhibit on Dred Scott); Ina Karanxha, Alyssa LoGrasso and Ariana Tuccelli (for their Web site on Harriet Beecher Stowe); Alicia Farina (for her exhibit on Bayard Rustin); Alison DeStefano, Deepti Kanneganti and Kristiana Lyons (for their performance about Charlie Chaplin); Zachary Pinto (for his exhibit on Gaylord Nelson); and David DePalma (for his documentary on... (Stoneham Sun, MA)
The Presidential Election of 1852 Mar 24, 2009
It was also the year Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin was first serialized, further dividing the national house. Pierce would sign the , utterly dividing the nation as well as political parties. (Suite101.com)
A tale of two Harriets Mar 13, 2009
Emma Palzere-Rae portrays Harriet Beecher StoweSusannah H. Snowden/SunPhotos ... Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe will be brought to life in two one-act dramas that explore the lives of anti-slavery activist Tubman and author Stowe in the upcoming performance, Harriet2 at the Union Baptist Church in Mystic later this month ... Harriet Beecher Stowe is very much a working mom, she says, she s trying to figure out how to meet deadlines, cook food and tend to the children. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to keep trade group Mar 13, 2009
Among the authors it has published are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Wal do Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain. About 125 employees work for the division in New York and Boston out of a total Houghton Mifflin workforce of about 4,000. (Boston Globe)
Civil Rights Pioneers Honored on Stamps Feb 22, 2009
She wrote a short tribute to Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in observance of the centenary of Stowe's birth, and published articles in various periodicals and newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and the Boston Herald. Terrell was one of the prominent citizens who signed "The Call" for the NAACP. She advocated protest and resistance against injustice; her endorsement of boycotts, sit-ins and picket lines earned her a reputation for being "militant." She remained... (PR Newswire)
Gone From Litchfield, Saint's Efforts Go On Feb 20, 2009
When his crusade to reshape the dismantled bones of the birthplace of abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe into a museum moved from Litchfield to Torrington, and then seemed to fade away, many assumed Mr. Saint had moved on to another cause some-where else ... Although Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in the house when her father, Lyman Beecher, was a preacher in Litchfield, the family moved when Stowe was still a child. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
In 'Banquet,' evolution theory, and the big thinkers behind it Feb 11, 2009
Beecher, for example, was an outspoken abolitionist and the brother of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Werth provides mini biographies of all the key players and describes their intellectual and personal interactions, though he often quotes too extensively from their works. (Boston Globe)
Education program pays tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Feb 8, 2009
The home was owned by the shoemaker and prominent abolitionist Alfred Fellows, and was visited over the years by the likes of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Coolidge. With an audience spanning young to old with many children in attendance, Trask addressed the younger generation at the conclusion of his talk by asking, What is the lesson. (Danvers Herald, MA)
Column: Looking back at South Scituates First Decade Feb 8, 2009
Equally effective in increasing the number of opponents to the peculiar institution was the publication in 1852 of Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin. Hearts bled over the cruel treatment of benign Uncle Tom by the cruel slave driver, Simon Legree. (Norwell Mariner, MA)
Spend An Afternoon with Harriet Beecher Stowe Feb 8, 2009
Spend An Afternoon with Harriet Beecher Stowe - Wellesley, MA - The Wellesley Townsman ... Jan Turnquist portraying Harriet Beecher Stowe ... Spend An Afternoon with Harriet Beecher Stowe. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Claudia Roth Pierpont: James Baldwin’s flight from America. Feb 8, 2009
The central problem with the book, as Baldwin saw it, was that Wright s criminal hero was defined by his hatred and his fear, and represented not a man but a social category; as a literary figure, he was no better than Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom. And he was more dangerous, perpetuating the monstrous legend of the black killer which Wright had meant to destroy. (New Yorker)
