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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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

#StoweSyllabus: What We're Reading This Week

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

Making a home for Black History
Vinson Cunnigham, August 29, 2016, The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/analyzing-the-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture

Nat Turner’s insurrection
Thomas Wentworth Higgins, 1861 issue of The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1861/08/nat-turners-insurrection/308736/

Justice Department says it will end the use of private prisons
Matt Zapotosky and Chico Harlan, August 18, 2016, The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/18/justice-department-says-it-will-end-use-of-private-prisons/?utm_term=.630554b428e2

Using Reconstruction to understand today’s racial tensions
Andrew Reese, July 28, 2016, Facing Today
http://bit.ly/2bOiNtC  

What are you reading this week? Share in the comments below! 
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