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 ...

He had eluded captors by stowing away on a ship, and then suddenly showed up at Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Brunswick, Maine, home seeking shelter and food. This was in December 1850, an especially ...

July 1 marks the death of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), a Christian whose storytelling ability inspired thousands to see the evils of slavery. Skip to content Open sections menu Sections.

But the months that Harriet Beecher Stowe lived at the address in the city's Walnut Hills neighborhood earned the house its name, its fame and a $4.5 million renovation that began in 2016.

(Courtesy of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center) After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment ended slavery and the 14th Amendment granted citizenship to Black people, Harvey said, but, they said, “so ...

The historic home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the American author and abolitionist, was reintroduced to the Greater Cincinnati community Friday following an eight-year restoration project. The ...

It turned out that one of his readers was a novelist, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who relied on it in part to capture the character of slavery in her 1852 bestseller, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which ...

It was originally built in the 1800s and served as a home to famed author Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote the most important anti-slavery novel in history, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But that’s not ...

The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is now open noon to 3 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and visitors can sit and read or write in a parlor where Stowe would have held her salons, inviting Bowdoin ...

The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is named for the author of bestselling anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in the house with her family — many of them high ...