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 ...

During my time at the museum’s object conservation lab, I discovered that a set of painted panels in the museum’s collection had quite a history—most of it hidden from view. The panels are the ...

One evening in December 1850, an escaped slave named John Andrew Jackson arrived at a handsome, white clapboard house in Brunswick, Maine, cold and desperate for somewhere to stay. He was fleeing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 Chopin, La., like the one that might ...

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