When “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” appeared in 1852, it set sales records and became an international sensation. The Boston preacher Theodore Parker said it had “excited more attention than any book ...

It can be a challenge to grasp the full historical context of a novel, even one as well known as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” This is in spite of the fact that the novel is ...

For clarity, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is not related to the famous book of the same name. The cabin is named after Tom Markham, a miner and fur trapper who homesteaded 40 acres of land in the 1860s.

Number one, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a lot of people don't know, was actually based on the slave narrative of a man by the name of Josiah Henson, who escaped from Maryland back in the earlier 1830s ...

Published nearly 170 years ago, Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe had a profound impact on American slavery. But Uncle Tom is not a relic from the 19th century: this complex figure ...

Yes, Virginia, there was a real Uncle Tom, but you’ll have to go to Canada to see this chapter of American history and the cabin (actually a comfortable two-story house) where the heroic black ...

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 circulation ...

Author David Reynolds talks about how Uncle Tom's Cabin intensified sentiments both for and against slavery, pulling the nation apart.

Saving the Real 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' Officials of Maryland's Montgomery County and a preservation group have decided to purchase the home of the slave who inspired the main character in Uncle Tom's ...

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was frequently adapted to movies after 1900, but always with white actors in the lead roles until this version, said to be the first feature-length American film that ...