Welcome to the conversation!


Welcome to the conversation!

Harriet Beecher Stowe's (1811-1896) best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), made her the most famous American woman of the 19th century and galvanized the abolition movement before the Civil War.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

#StoweSyllabus: What We're Reading This Week

Articles and current events that got us thinking over the week!

History class and the fiction about race in America
Alia Wong, October 21, 2015, The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/the-history-class-dilemma/411601/

How Texas teaches history
Ellen Bresler Rockmore, October 21, 2015, The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/opinion/how-texas-teaches-history.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0

How to confront friends who wear offensive Halloween costumes
Katie Dupere, October 24, 2015, Mashable
http://mashable.com/2015/10/24/halloween-offensive-costumes/#i63lX6rJ4Pqh

FCC moves to cut high cost of prisoner’s calls
Joel Rose, October 21, 2015, NPR
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/21/450464766/fcc-moves-to-cut-high-cost-of-prisoners-calls

What are your reactions to the pieces? What articles, news pieces, or video-clips have you come across over the week? Let us know, below! 
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